A Gospel of the Hebrews: The Untold Gospel: Matthew’s Lost Hebrew Manuscript and Its Legacy

by James Brantingham

A Gospel of the Hebrews The Untold Gospel: Matthew's Lost Hebrew Manuscript and Its Legacy Throughout the annals of Christian religious history, few texts have captured the imagination and stirred the curiosity of scholars and believers alike, as has the seeming illusory Hebrew Gospel of Matthew . One of the first 'Bishops' of 'the Way' a 'Nazarene' (and an early follower of Moschiach Yeshua), part of the first generation of Christians after the apostles, and one who sat at the feet of the Apostle John was Papias bishop of Hierapolis (c. 60 - c.130 AD). Papias reported that Matthew first wrote his Gospel in Hebrew (for the Jewish brothers). This report and its truth or falsity, and whether Matthew even wrote a Hebrew Gospel, was reported (as correct) by Eusebius, the Church's first historian, and recounted just before the Council of Nicaea met (in 325 CE). Whether a Hebrew Gospel of Matthew ( HGMatthew ) existed has long been doubted. Is Eusebius' report accurate? Did Papias tell the truth? Was it in Hebrew or Aramaic? Or, was it 'Greek' but (like the first Tanakh, or the Old Testament) written for Jews of the Diaspora and now known as the Septuagint LXX in "a kind of 'sacred' Hebraic -like " Greek?" Papias said Matthew wrote it in Hebrew for 'his people' (the Hebrews in Jerusalem who could read Hebrew) and those who wished to learn about Moshiach Yeshua in the 'Holy Language.' Like the educated Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Scholarly Scribes, etc. That it (the HGMatthew ) existed seems beyond doubt (see evidence below). What form it existed is ultimately unknown, but one possible reconstruction as a ' Gospel of the Hebrews ' is presented here. Later, Jewish-Christian Gospels claimed derivation from the HGMatthew, but they later relabeled it as the Gospel of the Hebrews. The Gospel of the Hebrews was powerfully proclaimed as derived from the HGMatthew , which extant evidence supports. There is evidence that it contained some Gnostic verses (discussed below). This book presents a possible model or recreation of the lost, ' Gospel of the Hebrews ,' a 'treasure of early Christianity' In the early years of the 'Church,' and various accounts suggested that the Apostles Thomas or, more likely, Bartholomew brought the HGMatthew to India. In agreement with the church historian Eusebius and the Alexandrian Scholar Pantaenus, who read Hebrew (a founder of the Alexandrian Catechetical School who sailed to India, met the Indian Christians evangelized by the Apostles, Pantaenus brought back a copy of the HGMatthew , and left it at the school where many Church Fathers: Irenaeus, Origen, Clement, Eusebius, Epiphanius (and many others saw the text) and agreed it was the HGMatthew . Jerome looked at it and used it as a "source" for the Gospel of Matthew (which he believed was a revised version of the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew .) He and others noted that the HGMatthew provided the infrastructure and now contained added Jewish-Christian, Gnostic, Subordinationist, and Adoptionist elements. Other modern authors have reconstructed the HGMatthew . And they have been used - not word for word - but as an infrastructure to refashion a hypothetically restored Gospel of the Hebrews . Additionally, many verses from the "Jewish-Christian" texts the Church Fathers read are stated to have been derived initially directly from the HGMatthew and from texts that made up the Gospel of the Hebrews . So, in this new speculative transliteration and translation of the Gospel of the Hebrews, has added a moderate number of Gnostic, Adoptionist, and Jewish-Chiristian verses. Please read it for yourself!

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CNLQFRLY
• ISBN13: 9798865345121
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 245 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"