It is generally accepted that Matthew’s gospel, as well as some of the subsequent ones were originally written in Hebrew because of the numerous references made to the Torah and the Books of the Prophets, but in regards to who was Matthew-the-man, he may simply have been like a modern-day obsessive collector of all sound bytes attributed to his hero – in this case, Yeshua, the already-crucified teacher.
Monthly Archives: October 2011
From Yeshua to Jesus – Jesus in Matthew [part 4]
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The first Christian gospel is generally attributed to Matthew, though it is believed that Mark’s had been written some ten years earlier therefore forty years after Yeshua’s death.
Matthew’s account begins while Yeshua was having one of the daily ritual baths in accordance with the ancestral Jewish rule of Mikveh which requires a daily immersion in a flowing body of water to cleanse the body.
From Yeshua to Jesus- Seeking Jesus [part 3]
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All but the most ardent of miracle believers will accept that the early prophets, the Isyim and Yeshua, who had lived with them for many years, and others from various world cultures, did not truly perform ‘miracles’.
From Yeshua to Jesus- Seeking Jesus [part 2]
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Another cause of the lack of source material relevant to the early years of Christianity, in Jerusalem, after the death of Yeshua, stems from the facts that though Jewish scholars had written at length about the long succession of Hebrew…