kann mir jemand helfen die Quellen für die jüdischen Zitate zu finden?
God is the God of history; and history, in great events as well as in small, is made to serve Him and His Kingdom. This history, being human history, is one of sin and weakness as well as of good (note the inclusion of Tamar, Rahab, and Bathsheba). It may be that the evangelist mentions these and Ruth as a reminder to the pride of Israel that they also are in the royal Davidic line; for the four mothers, Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah alone were those usually remembered. In Rabbinic literature they are called ‘hills,’ and the Patriarchs are called ‘mountains’ (cf. Sifre Dt., 146b). In Rahab and Ruth we have examples of heathen accepted into the commonwealth of Israel, proofs of the universalistic purpose of the Kingdom of God. Many of the names in the genealogy are Messianic types. Thus we have (i) Judah, in connexion with Gen 49:8 (cf. Midr. Tanch., 54); (ii) Perez, who often stands for the Messiah (cf. Gen R 12; Ex R 30); (iii) Nahshon (cf. Nu R 13); ‘six things were taken away from Adam (after the Fall), and they will be restored through the son of Nahshon, that is the Messiah.’ Rahab is often mentioned, and not only as an example (cf. Sifre to Numbers, 52 f.). Ruth is mentioned, not only as an example (cf. Sifre to Numbers, ibid.), but as an ancestress of the Messiah. ‘God found her in Sodom and appointed her as the mother of the Messiah, who is to come.’
