Is There a Contradiction between Alma 7:10 and Matthew 2:5

Title

Is There a Contradiction between Alma 7:10 and Matthew 2:5–6?

Magazine

Improvement Era

Publication Type

Magazine Article

Year of Publication

1955

Authors

Smith, Joseph Fielding (Primary)

Number of Pages

222 Date Published

April 1955

Volume

58 Issue Number

4 Terms of use

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Bibliographic Citation

Abstract

In answer to the title, this article states that there is no contradiction, arguing that Joseph Smith and all of his associates knew perfectly well that Bethlehem was where Jesus was born. The expression used in Alma 7:10 was not that Jesus was born in Jerusalem, but at Jerusalem. This is a Hebrew expression and simply refers to a geographical area—Jerusalem and environs, including Bethlehem.

Magazine

Improvement Era 58, no. 4 (April 1955)

McKay, David O.

Intertextuality

Alma (Book)

Jerusalem (Old World)

Bethlehem

Nativity

Jesus Christ, Birth of

Gospel of Matthew

Is There a Contradiction between Alma 7:10 and Matthew 2:5–6?

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