Lachmann (1835). 53 Regarding the related question of the reliability of Jeromes testimony also saw few scholars taking his evidence at face value.

It is based upon an early Christian tradition, deriving from the 2nd-century bishop Papias of Hierapolis, that Matthew the Apostle composed such a gospel.

Papias appeared to say that this Hebrew or Aramaic gospel was subsequently translated into the canonical Gospel of Matthew, but modern studies have shown this to be untenable.

Modern variants of the hypothesis survive, but have not found favor with scholars as a whole.

Jerome claims to have seen a gospel in Aramaic that contained all the quotations he assigns to it, but it can be demonstrated that some of them could never have existed in a Semitic language.

His claim to have produced all the translations himself is also suspect, as many are found in earlier scholars such as Origen and Eusebius.

Who translated it after that in Greek is not sufficiently ascertained.

Moreover, the Hebrew itself is preserved to this day in the library at Caesarea, which the martyr Pamphilus so diligently collected.

I also was allowed by the Nazarenes who use this volume in the Syrian city of Beroea to copy it.

Origen circa 210 CE, quoted by Eusebius, Church History, Book 6, Chapter 25, Section 4 8 9.

It probably originated in a Jewish-Christian community in Roman Syria towards the end of the first century AD, 10 and there is little doubt among modern scholars that it was composed in Koine Greek, the daily language of the time 11 although this is disputed; see, for example, Carmignac, Birth of the Synoptics, and Tresmontant, The Hebrew Christ, both of whom postulate early Hebrew gospels.

The author, who is not named in the text itself but who was universally accepted by the early church to be the apostle Matthew, drew on three main sources, the Gospel of Mark, possibly the hypothetical sayings collection known as the Q source, both in Greek, and material unique to his own community, called M.

Mark and Q were both written sources composed in Greek, but some of the parts of Q may have been translated from Aramaic into Greek more than once.

M is comparatively small, only 170 verses, made up almost exclusively of teachings; it probably was not a single source, and while some of it may have been written, most seems to have been oral.

The precise nature of the relationship is the synoptic problem.

The most widely held solution to the problem today is the two-source theory, which holds that Mark, plus another, hypothetical source, Q, were used by Matthew and Luke.

But while this theory has widespread support, there is a notable minority view that Mark was written last using Matthew and Luke (the two-gospel hypothesis ).

Still other scholars accept Markan priority, but argue that Q never existed, and that Luke used Matthew as a source as well as Mark (the Farrer hypothesis ).

Today, this hypothesis is held to be discredited by most experts.

As outlined subsequently, this was always a minority view, but in former times occasionally rather influential, and advanced by some eminent scholars.

In 1778 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in Wolfenbuttel identified the.

Hermann Olshausen (1832) 29 suggested a lost Hebrew Matthew was the common source of Greek Matthew and the Jewish-Christian Gospels mentioned by Epiphanius, Jerome and others.

Reicke 2005, p. 52: No 2, the Proto-Gospel Hypothesis, stems from a remark of Papias implying that Matthew had compiled the Logia in Hebrew (Eusebius, History III.

Following this, Epiphanius and Jerome held that there was an older Gospel of 31 32 33 34 Lon Vaganay (1940), 35 Lucien Cerfaux, Xavier Lon-Dufour and Antonio Gaboury (1952) attempted to revive Lessings proto-gospel hypothesis.

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) in its article Gospel of the Hebrews noted that Nicholson cannot be said.to have carried conviction to the minds of New Testament scholars.

His thesis has not been accepted by other scholars.

The exact identification of which Jewish Gospel is which in the references of Jerome, Origen and Epiphanius, and whether each church father had one or more Jewish Gospels in mind, is an ongoing subject of scholarly debate.

However the presence in patristic testimony concerning three different Jewish Gospels with three different traditions regarding the baptism of Christ suggests multiple traditions.

Critical scholars had long moved on from the hypotheses of Eichhorn, Schleiermacher (1832) and K.

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