To: Tzfat; CynicalBear
"I can say that relying upon the quotations in Eusebius (please note that most of these quotations are from Eusebius, fourth century, and/or go back to Papias whose work has not survived except in rough quotation, mostly in Eusebius) is a very questionable practice, no matter what point one is trying to prove. This is evident just from the Smorgasbord of quotes your correspondent provides.
http://www.ichthys.com/mail-Matthew%20in%20Hebrew.htm
Unless you have a manuscript of an earlier Matthew , you are walking on shaky ground.. By the time of Jesus most jews were using Aramaic and greek for their daily dealings
104 posted on
01/17/2015 12:51:16 PM PST by
RnMomof7
(Ga 4:16)
To: RnMomof7
>>Unless you have a manuscript of an earlier Matthew , you are walking on shaky ground..<<
Unfortunately that hasn't stopped Catholics in the past. They can even make things up if it doesn't say it didn't happen in scripture.
107 posted on
01/17/2015 1:00:30 PM PST by
CynicalBear
(For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
To: RnMomof7
Pope Francis rudely interrupted PM Netanyahu during a speech when the topic of what language Jesus spoke came up.
It seems that perhaps you and the Pope have a theological agenda rather than a desire for facts. Hebrew, like the Jews themselves, is a very inconvenient thing for some theologies.
Is there a Hebrew text for Matthew? Who really knows, but there is at least evidence to make the claim, whereas claiming there is nothing simply because it has not been found reminds one of dogma, rather than a pursuit of facts.
123 posted on
01/17/2015 2:15:45 PM PST by
Tzfat
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