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Dating the Gospel of the Hebrews: There is one statement that has scholarly consensus, which is that the Gospel of the Hebrews was NOT the original Hebrew Gospel of Matthew in a pure form. However, many some scholars agree that it is likely a severely corrupted version of that text as Epiphanius so ...

So why does it pick out ignorance as the only involuntary sin mentioned, as opposed to involuntary sins in general? It does not do that at all. A sin committed in ignorance is an involuntary sin. They are the same class. One is not a species of the other .[/quote] What about a sin that the person i...

I am pretty certain the Nazoraean gospel is indeed a version of canonical Matthew with some changes made and additions inserted. I am pretty certain the Ebionite gospel is a combination of Matthean and Lucan materials with tendentious additions and changes. What I am not at all certain about is tha...

In gHebrewss, Jesus asks: "Wherein (what) have I sinned, that I should go and be baptized of him? unless perhaps this very thing that I have said is a sin of ignorance...." This is about voluntary and involuntary sins (as in Numbers 15.27, 30), not about sacred knowledge. So why does it p...

Observations worthy of consideration (well, except for the Tabor/Hermon thing, since the canonical gospels do not actually name the mountain, so we have no way of knowing which one, if any, they had in mind). Yes, in Mark 9 we can almost know that the Transfiguration was originally set away from Mt...

In gHebrewss, Jesus asks: "Wherein (what) have I sinned, that I should go and be baptized of him? unless perhaps this very thing that I have said is a sin of ignorance...." That is a reference to the idea of sacred saving knowledge, the gnosis that must be received. In this verse, the lack...

Well, it would not be our canonical version of the temptation, just as it is obviously not our canonical version of the transfiguration. Again, I have no firm opinion on this, but I find your explanation quite overcertain in this case. It seems pretty natural that it would be the transfiguration, n...

; nor have you explained the connection between it being gnostic and it being a reworking of Matthew (instead, you have simply restated your main point that the fathers assumed it was a reworking of Matthew).... Well, I quite agree that the Ebionite gospel is a modification of other gospels. What I...

Well, it would not be our canonical version of the temptation, just as it is obviously not our canonical version of the transfiguration. Again, I have no firm opinion on this, but I find your explanation quite overcertain in this case. It seems pretty natural that it would be the transfiguration, n...

The supposed Luke 24:34 was to a Simon, more careful study showing this was another Simon the second of the two at Emmaus. Even more careful study based on the grammar of the word legontas in that verse shows that the Simon named was not in fact one of the two travelers. Ah, Ahh.... I can imagine a...