So far the claim has been made that there are definitely two and possibly three different traditions within the New Testament itself about Jesus’ conception. The annunciation stories in Luke and most probably in Matthew witness to a virginal conception, Paul, John and Hebrews bear witness to Jesus being a physical descendant of David through Joseph, and Luke combines this perspective with that of a virginal conception, while the minority reading of Matthew and possibly Mark 6.3 suggest illegitimacy. So the primary hermeneutical question is how such canonical diversity is to be handled.
