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Why is it so important that our Savior is Yeshua and not Jesus?

Why is it crucial to understand He taught in Hebrew and not Greek?

The two are truly worlds apart. Opposing thoughts. Opposing ideas. Opposing principles. Opposing teachings.

And as Nehemia Gordon points out in this particular book, a Hebrew original would clear up a number of confusing passages whose meaning has always seemed lost in translation.

Did Yeshua tell us to obey the rabbis after telling us how evil they were and then proceed to tell them directly that they were devils?

Did our Messiah tell us not to swear oaths when the Torah tells us to swear oaths in the Name of YHVH?

Did He tell us to obey the Pharisees, or did He tell us to obey Moses?

Shem Tov’s Hebrew Matthew which Nehemia analyses herein was a medieval recording seemingly reflecting a line of textual transmission separate from the Greek and Latin manuscripts otherwise available.

Shem Tov penned this version of Matthew as an addendum to his book “Even Bohan”meaning Touchstone. His intent was to argue against Catholicism and to help his fellow Jews understand Matthew’s Gospel so as to better be ready to give answer when a Romish bishop should choose to drag one of them forward to defend their rejection of the Romish Church.

Clearly Shem Tov was not a disciple of Yeshua and believed He was not the Messiah, but his version of Matthew seems to not be a translation from Greek or Hebrew. Posing the question: where did it come from, and why does it make more sense in many places of the words of our Savior than does the Greek and Latin variants?

And for that matter, why do we have 28 copies of this Version of Matthew in Hebrew copied by Orthodox Jews? If someone wanted to prove Yeshua is the Messiah using a Hebrew gospel it would be suspect, but because Shem Tov held a goal of disproving it, we have all the more reason to rely on his testimony when the words he wrote down do the opposite of their goal.

Give this book a look through if you get a chance. It’s well worth the time, and well worth revisiting.

(Also check out Hebrew Gospel Pearls on YouTube in which Nehemia Gordon and Keith Johnson analyze Shem Tov’s Hebrew Matthew and the various manuscripts of it.)

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