TheVorlageof Shem-Tob's ‘Hebrew Matthew’
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Responding to assertions and evidence in a 1997New Testament Studiesarticle by R. F. Shedinger (and to George Howard, the editor of the text in question), this article demonstrates with fourteen textual examples and circumstantial evidence (Isaac Velasquez's Arabic gospel translation) that the Hebrew Matthew contained in Shem-Tob'sEven Bohan(1) is part of the western harmonized gospel tradition, (2) is especially, often uniquely, related to the traditions which lie behind the Middle Dutch Liège Harmony, and (3) is translated from a medieval LatinVorlage. In no way is it (paceShedinger) related to45or (paceHoward) pre-Johannine.
