![]() Its unusual nature may be explained by the fact that it underwent a different process of transmission than the Greek, since it was preserved by Jews, independent from the Christian community. It contains a plethora of readings which are not to be found in any of the Christian codices of the Greek Gospel. ![]() “Shem-Tob’s Hebrew Matthew is the most unusual text of the First Gospel extant. He received it from previous generations of Jewish scribes and tradents.” (George Howard, Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, Preface to the Second Edition) ”In my judgment, Shem-Tob the polemist did not prepare this text by translating it from Latin Vulgate, the Byzantine Greek, or any other known edition of the Gospel of Matthew. A second revised edition was published in 1995 (George Howard, Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1995). Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1987). George Howard extracted the text of Matthew from the Even Bohan, translated it into English and published it in 1987 (George Howard, The Gospel of Matthew according to a Primitive Hebrew Text. The twelfth book includes a complete Hebrew text of the Gospel of Matthew, which is interspersed with anti-Christian commentary. Shem-Tob issued several revisions of the Even Bohan, adding five more books to his original twelve. The Even Bohan is an anti Christian treatise written by the Spanish Jewish philosopher Shem-Tob ben Isaac Shaprut of Tudela. The Secret Gospel of Mark also demonstrates that the redactional history of the Jesus tradition is complex. If the two texts can be shown to be interrelated it would provide strong evidence that the Secret Gospel of Mark is not a modern forgery. The Secret Gospel of Mark contains a similar passage. In this text, Jesus is said to have spent the night in Bethany where he taught the disciples about the Kingdom of God. The 14th century polemical treatise Even Bohan written by Shem-Tob ben Shaprut contains a Hebrew version of the complete text of the Gospel of Matthew. A PDF file of the essay can be found here.
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