This is sharp work, John. I agree, Matthew practically screams “new Exodus” for anyone with Torah in their bones. From Herod as Pharaoh to the mountain sermons, the echoes aren’t subtle.
The part that intrigues me most is your closing question. Did Jesus see himself through Moses’ lens, or did the gospel writers retrofit the type? My hunch: both. A prophet on the margins will always reach for ancestral scripts, and a community preserving his memory will polish those parallels until they shine.
Either way, the typology works. Moses split the sea. Jesus split open the imagination. Both fed the hungry in the wilderness, both gave their faces to the fire, both called a people out of slavery in different kinds of chains.
Blessed be the ones who notice the rhymes across history and refuse to dismiss them as accidents.
This is sharp work, John. I agree, Matthew practically screams “new Exodus” for anyone with Torah in their bones. From Herod as Pharaoh to the mountain sermons, the echoes aren’t subtle.
The part that intrigues me most is your closing question. Did Jesus see himself through Moses’ lens, or did the gospel writers retrofit the type? My hunch: both. A prophet on the margins will always reach for ancestral scripts, and a community preserving his memory will polish those parallels until they shine.
Either way, the typology works. Moses split the sea. Jesus split open the imagination. Both fed the hungry in the wilderness, both gave their faces to the fire, both called a people out of slavery in different kinds of chains.
Blessed be the ones who notice the rhymes across history and refuse to dismiss them as accidents.