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'''''Authentic Matthew''''' is a name given, according to ]'s ''Commentary on Matthew'' ch. 2 , to a ] identical to the ]: "In the Gospel which the Nazarenes and the Ebionites use which we have recently translated from Hebrew to Greek, and which most people call the Authentic Gospel of Matthew...". It was called ''Authentic Matthew'' because a tradition, reported by Jerome, asserted that it was actually written by the apostle ]. ''Authentic Matthew'' is a lost gospel that has been at least partially preserved in the works of some of the ]. |
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==Background== |
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In the early first century, a small group of people in and about ] started to claim that a young man named Jesus was the promised ]ish ]. They said that the ]s had executed Jesus, and ] had raised him from the dead. |
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In the year ], the province of ] rose in revolt against the Romans. According to some writers, during this period of instability, temple priests loyal to ] murdered the group’s leader, ]. In the suppression of the rebellion, Roman troops depopulated and destroyed much of Judaea, including the city of Jerusalem. |
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One account of the life and teachings of Jesus perhaps dating from this time was written by a person named Matthew. According to the Church Fathers, he was the same person as the ] Matthew, and his account was written in ]. Although circulated among Jewish followers of Jesus, this ''Gospel of the Hebrews'' was little known among the churches founded by ], for even among Paul's literate followers few were fluent in Aramaic written in ]. |
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==The Hebrew Text== |
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According to the Church Fathers, the Gospel of the Hebrews or the Hebrew Gospel was authoritative and apostolic in nature. For example, ] quoted by ] tells us that the Apostle Matthew wrote it in "Hebrew letters." |
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Eusebius adds that the reason Matthew wrote his version was that he was about to leave the religious community he established, and therefore put together an account of the life of Jesus for the people he left behind. |
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] confirms the aforementioned, and goes on to say that Matthew alone of the ] writers composed a gospel in Hebrew script. |
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Some modern scholars contest this, arguing that Matthew also wrote the ''Canonical Matthean Gospel'' in Hebrew script. However, ] suggests to some that the ''Canonical Matthean Gospel'' as recorded in the Bible was composed in Greek many years after the time of Matthew by an unknown redactor. |
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St. ] is most helpful in understanding the origins of the Gospel of the Hebrews. According to Jerome, the Gospel of the Hebrews was written in the ] language (Aramaic) and used Hebrew letters. Most people of Jerome’s day called it "Authentic Matthew", as they believed the Apostle of Jesus who was the tax collector composed it. The Aramaic original was preserved at the library in Caesarea, but copies existed in the '']'' community in ], ], as well as in the '']'' community. The Nazarenes supposedly gave Jerome a copy that he translated into ]. |
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Jerome believed the Gospel of the Hebrews was authoritative and wrote about it extensively, thus preserving much of the text. |
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