{"id":7915,"date":"2003-06-12T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2003-06-12T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/06\/12\/parody-of-matthew\/"},"modified":"2003-06-12T13:00:05","modified_gmt":"2003-06-12T18:00:05","slug":"parody-of-matthew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/06\/parody-of-matthew\/","title":{"rendered":"Parody of Matthew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">Here is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/mld\/kansascity\/living\/6014126.htm\">article<\/a> on the historicity of the Gospel of Matthew which contains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8230;In an essay written for the book Passover and Easter: Origin and History to Modern Times, Israel J. Yuval of Jerusalem&#8217;s Hebrew University reported a find in the Talmud that appears to show Matthew could have been written earlier than some scholars contend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Yuval wrote that a leading rabbinical scholar of the time was &#8220;considered to have authored a sophisticated parody of the Gospel according to Matthew.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The parody, written by a rabbi known as Gamaliel, is believed by some well-respected liberal Christian scholars to have been written about A.D. 73 or earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The fact the parody exists and the date when it was believed to be written &#8220;would undercut badly (biblical critics&#8217;) claims of a late date of A.D. 85-90 or later,&#8221; said Bob Newman, professor of New Testament at Biblical Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Interesting, yet with phrases like &#8220;reported to find&#8221;, &#8220;considered to have&#8221;, and &#8220;believed by some&#8221; it doesn&#8217;t sound very convincing; not that I need any convincing on Matthew but it would be a good apologetics tool if true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an article on the historicity of the Gospel of Matthew which contains. &#8230;In an essay written for the book Passover and Easter: Origin and History to Modern Times,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}