Is This a Jewish Pedigree Genealogy?

Ruth was a prostitute, not allowed into the assembly of the lord for ten generations. Matthew is purposely going throughout the genealogy and pointing out the women in the story that we would typically like to push out or avoid. And matthew is going out of his way to say, those dark stories are a part of god's story. You'll notice in the show notes we have a wickapaedia article, mamser. Mamser is a word that comes out of the tora and it means in r in english, we might think bastard.