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The essay explores Odes of Solomon 19 and Sibylline Oracles 8, two second-century texts that feature accounts of the conception of Jesus. It looks specifically at their detailed descriptions of God’s considerable role in Mary’s conception, birth, and nurture of Jesus. The author argues that these descriptions echo the God-enabled miraculous conceptions by the barren Hebrew Bible matriarchs, albeit with memorable elaboration. The author further maintains that it is through the Hebrew Bible narrative frame that the texts establish the elect status of Jesus and his Christian brothers and sisters. In this sense, the legitimizing motif of the divine-human conception of Jesus in these second-century texts functions much like the interventions and life-giving power of the God of the Hebrew Bible when God opens the matriarchs’ wombs. Rather than direct citation or explicit commentary, reception is defined as narrative frame, motif, and topos. There is also discussion of Luke 1 as a bridge between the Hebrew Bible and the early Christian texts.