Hebrew Gospel hypothesis
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In the 18th and early 19th century, several scholars suggested that a Hebrew proto-gospel was the main source or one of several sources for the canonical gospels. This theorizing would later give birt
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing whose New hypothesis on the Evangelists, 1778 suggested a lost Hebrew Gospel as a free source for the Synoptic Gospels
Augustinian hypothesis
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The Augustinian hypothesis is a solution to the synoptic problem, which concerns the origin of the canonical Gospels in the New Testament. The hypothesis holds that Matthew was written first, by Matth
Hebrew Gospel hypothesis
…theory, which posits Gospels originally written in Aramaic rather than Hebrew. Modern versions of the Hebrew gospel hypothesis often overlap with the Augustinian hypothesis. The idea that Matthew wrote a gospel in a language other than Greek begins with Papias of Hierapolis, c. 125–150 AD. In a passage with several ambiguous…
St. Augustine Freeing A Prisoner, by Michael Pacher (1482)
The Evangelist Matthew Inspired by an Angel, by Rembrandt (1661), Louvre, Paris
Book cover of John Wenham's Redating Matthew, Mark and Luke