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The Gospel according to the Hebrews and the Gospel of the Ebionites (Hardcover)
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The Gospel according to the Hebrews and the Gospel of the Ebionites (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Gospel Texts
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Scholars are divided on the number of gospels to which fragmentary
Jewish-Christian gospel traditions should be attributed. In this
book Gregory attributes them to two gospels: the Gospel according
to the Hebrews and the Gospel of the Ebionites, with no need for
any postulated Gospel of the Nazoraeans. As two distinct texts,
each gospel is treated on its own terms, with its own introduction,
followed by a text, translation and commentary on each fragment,
and further discussion about what we may conclude about the overall
character of the text on the basis of the fragments that survive.
Yet they share certain common features that warrant them being
treated together in one volume with an introduction that discusses
certain critical issues that are relevant to them both. One common
factor is the partial and indirect way in which these texts have
been preserved. No independent manuscript tradition survives for
either text, so they have been transmitted only to the extent that
they were quoted or discussed by a number of early Christian
authors, none of whom claims to be the author of the text from
which he appears to quote or to which he appears to refer. This
raises a number of questions of a literary nature about how
excerpts from these texts may be interpreted. Another common factor
is that these gospel traditions are usually referred to as
Jewish-Christian, which may raise questions about their historical
origins and theological outlook. Any judgment about the historical
origins or theological nature of these gospels must rest upon prior
examination of what may be reconstructed of their texts, and
Gregory is careful to distinguish between what we may conclude from
these gospels as texts and how they might contribute to our
knowledge of early Christian history. The book also includes a
number of appendices in which he discusses issues that have been
prominent in the history of scholarship on these texts, but which
he argues are not relevant to these two gospels as he presents
them. These include claims about an original Hebrew gospel of
Matthew, the postulated Gospel of the Nazoraeans and the so-called
'Jewish gospel', as well as what may be known about the Nazoraeans
and the Ebionites.
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