‘The Jenny and the Colt’ in Matthew’s messianic entry, Part 1: Matthew 21:5 as a reading of Zechariah 9:9 in Light of Mark 11:1-10

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Carlson, Stephen C.. (2019). ‘The Jenny and the Colt’ in Matthew’s messianic entry, Part 1: Matthew 21:5 as a reading of Zechariah 9:9 in Light of Mark 11:1-10. Catholic Biblical Quarterly. 81(1), pp. 62 - 84. https://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2019.0051

Authors	Carlson, Stephen C.
Abstract	The presence of a female donkey (a "jenny") in Matthew's account of the triumphal entry (Matt 21:1-9) has been perplexing because her presence is not mentioned in either of Matthew's sources, Mark 11:1-10 and Zech 9:9. Some scholars hold that the jenny comes from another tradition, but this does not make her presence a fulfillment of the prophecy. Others hold that Matthew broke the parallelism of Zech 9:9, where the humble Messiah is to ride into Jerusalem "on a (male) donkey, and on a colt," but this too does not account for a female donkey at the scene. In this article, I argue for a plenary reading of the Hebrew prophecy where Matthew sees the presence of the jenny fulfilled in Zechariah's characterization of the colt as a "son of jennies."
Keywords	triumphal entry; Matthew 21:5; the colt of a jenny; Zechariah 9:9; Hebrew parallelism
Year	2019
Journal	Catholic Biblical Quarterly
Journal citation	81 (1), pp. 62 - 84
Publisher	Catholic Biblical Association of America
ISSN	0008-7912
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2019.0051
Page range	62 - 84
Research Group	Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry
Publisher's version	File Access Level Controlled
Place of publication	United States of America

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