{"id":906,"date":"2003-06-17T21:00:22","date_gmt":"2003-06-18T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/06\/17\/the-gospel-according-to-gamaliel\/"},"modified":"2003-06-17T21:00:22","modified_gmt":"2003-06-18T05:00:22","slug":"the-gospel-according-to-gamaliel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/06\/17\/the-gospel-according-to-gamaliel","title":{"rendered":"The Gospel According to Gamaliel"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the cumbersomely-titled article Support For Authenticity of The Book of Matthew Comes From An Unlikely Source<\/a>, you can learn how archaelogical\/historical finds are increasing our confidence in the biblical text.<\/p>\n

One of the first Gospels to be doubted was Matthew. Church tradition said it was written by Matthew, a tax collector who became a disciple of Jesus, a witness to events. Conservative Christian clergy and scholars said they believe the book of Matthew was written between A.D. 40 and 60, within Matthew\u2019s lifetime.<\/i><\/p>\n

But other scholars concluded the Gospel wasn\u2019t written any earlier than A.D. 85, perhaps as late as A.D. 135, long after Matthew\u2019s death. If the author wasn\u2019t a witness, the thinking goes, the Gospel becomes less credible.<\/p>\n

So to scholars the dating is important.<\/p>\n

In an essay written for the book Passover and Easter: Origin and History to Modern Times, Israel J. Yuval of Jerusalem\u2019s Hebrew University reported a find in the Talmud that appears to show Matthew could have been written earlier than some scholars contend.<\/p>\n

Yuval wrote that a leading rabbinical scholar of the time was \u201cconsidered to have authored a sophisticated parody of the Gospel according to Matthew.\u201d<\/p>\n

The parody, written by a rabbi known as Gamaliel, is believed by some well-respected liberal Christian scholars to have been written about A.D. 73 or earlier.<\/p>\n

The fact the parody exists and the date when it was believed to be written \u201cwould undercut badly (biblical critics\u2019) claims of a late date of A.D. 85\u201390 or later,\u201d said Bob Newman, professor of New Testament at Biblical Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the cumbersomely-titled article Support For Authenticity of The Book of Matthew Comes From An Unlikely Source, you can learn how archaelogical\/historical finds are increasing our confidence in the biblical text. One of the first Gospels to be doubted was Matthew. Church tradition said it was written by Matthew, a tax collector who became a \u2026 Continue reading \u201cThe Gospel According to Gamaliel\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-answers-to-honest-questions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-eC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}