George Howard (Hebraist)
Encyclopedia
George Howard is an American Hebraist, noted for his theories of Hebrew-language origins to the New Testament - including the possible use of the Tetragrammaton in the New Testament, and possible Hebrew origins of Matthew. He was formerly Associate Professor of Religion and Hebrew at the University of Georgia
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University of Georgia
The University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...
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Works
- Kaige Readings in Josephus, Textus 8 (1973) p45-54,
- The Gospel of Matthew according to a primitive Hebrew text Macon, GA: Mercer University. 1987
- Hebrew Gospel of Matthew (1995, 1998) argues that one of the rabbinical translations of Matthew found interspersed in the 14th C. Hebrew work The Touchstone of Ibn ShaprutIbn ShaprutShem-Tob ben Isaac Shaprut of Tudela was a Spanish Jewish philosopher, physician, and polemicist. He is often confused with the physician Shem-Ṭob ben Isaac of Tortosa, who lived earlier...
may preserve a lost Hebrew original to the Greek Gospel of MatthewGospel of MatthewThe Gospel According to Matthew is one of the four canonical gospels, one of the three synoptic gospels, and the first book of the New Testament. It tells of the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth...
. Though scholars such as William Horbury (1999) generally reject Howard's thesis and consider Ibn Shaprut's text to be a translation of a medieval Latin version into Hebrew. - Hebrew Gospel of Matthew article in Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible 2000 p874
- Paul: Crisis in Galatia: A Study in Early Christian Theology, 2004
- The Tetragrammaton and the Christian Greek Scriptures