Gospel of the Hebrews

simple reason that they skew one’s understanding and cause problem in reading the gospels by placing wrong dates for biblical events. Second,

Matthew 1 is faithful to the genealogy of the Hebrew Bible. In other words, Jesus is the one who has legitimately inherited the throne of Israel on line. It is important that this is the genealogy of the Hebrew Bible. All the Old Testament passages cited in the New Testament cite the Hebrew Bible, but rather the '70' translated into Greek. However, the genealogy of the Bible is different from the Hebrew Biblical genealogy. In other words, the author of the Gospel of Matthew did not build a genealogy based

The Gospels are essential texts of the Christian faith as they chronical the life of Jesus Christ. And yet they are surrounded by controversies because they seem to conflict each other. But, in the case of the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of John, this concern is truly misplaced. Looking closer at the texts shows that they are not entirely dissimilar. Both texts are based in tradition and their relation to Jesus. The texts come from the same founding idea but the difference lies in their uses

Authorship, audience and genre of the Gospel of Matthew Authorship: Most scholars, but not R.T. France (2007, pp14-22), believe that Matthew’s Gospel was written by a scribe, not the Apostle Matthew and that it was written approximately between AD 80- 90. France states that if the book was written at this time- it was within Matthew’s lifetime, and thus authorship cannot be proven. A key reason pointing to the Gospel being written by a scribe is that the Gospel was written in Greek and that the author

It consisted of the gospel of Luke (without the infancy narrative) and ten letters of Paul. He rejected the Old Testament, which he believed contained “immature ideas about God and [Jewish] nationalistic Messiahnism.” Marcion’s collection of Paul’s letters has been corroborated

government worker, who dropped a lavish lifestyle to be a disciple of Jesus. His gospel is thought to have many authors, and is in the two-source hypothesis along with Mark and Luke. Matthew also known as Levi, wrote to prove that Jesus Christ was the Messiah the Jewish people were promised. The Gospel of Matthew has multiple themes found throughout: Jesus is the fulfillment of the Old Testament, God is grace and judgment. This gospel cannot be dated exactly. Not much is known about the apostle Matthew, before

The author of this particular book of the Bible is unknown, making the book of Hebrews. Although this is the case, there have been many speculations to who the author could be. For 1200 years (400-1600 AD) Hebrews was referred to as ““The Epistle of Paul to the Hebrews.” But as theologian discover there is no real reason to believe that Paul would be the author of Hebrews. The author never identifies himself as Paul and authority of the apostolic nature is no mention which is not typical of the

Thematic Paper on the Gospels The three synoptic gospels are almost indifferent in relation to the major themes of concern in the bible. The only different gospel book on how the themes are presented is the book of John. One of the major themes of concern in the gospel books is about the ‘Kingdom of God’ which is similarly referred to as the ‘Kingdom of Heaven’. The gospel writers present how the kingdom of god is like through the stories of Jesus Christ. Statements in the gospels affirm that the kingdom

can remain factual, yet adapted to be presented to a variety of audiences-as is the case with the birth story of Jesus, the Messiah. The Gospels of Matthew and Luke are an example of the well-rounded, yet diverse, narration of the birth story of Jesus-Matthew's narration spoke to the Jewish people and Luke presented to the citizens of Rome. Although both Gospels share common elements of the birth story of Jesus-Mary, Joseph, the angelic announcement, an oppressive political ruler, difficult travel

The authorship of the Gospel of Matthew has been investigated due to the gospel thought to be written between A.D 75-80 (Green, 528). The gospel of Matthew’s foundation is Antioch presumably (Douglas, 631).” “The record of Papias’s statement about Matthew survives only in Eusebius (Hist. Eccl. 3.39.16). It reads ‘Matthew collected (synetaxato) the oracles (ta logia) in the Hebrew language (Hebraidi dialekto), and each interpreted (hermeneusen) them as best he could. Origen affirms this tradition