Hugh Schonfield on the Gospel according to the Hebrews:

The Gospel according to the Hebrews
is a literary outlaw with a price on its head;
but in spite of the scholarly hue and cry
it still evades capture.
Neither monastic libraries nor Egyptian rubbish heaps
have so far yielded up a single leaf of this important document....

For behind Hebrews lie the unknown potentialities
of the Nazarene tradition, which may confirm or contradict
some of the most chrished beliefs of Orthodox Christianity.
It is useless for certain theologians to designate Hebrews
as "secondary" on the evidence of the present
fragmentary remains preserved in quotation. ...

Judged by ancient testimony alone it is indisputable
that Hebrews has the best right of any Gospel
to be considered a genuine apostolic production;...

We have [thus far] relied solely on the canonical texts
for the facts about the life and teachings of [Yeshua]...
In the present state of our knowledge
we could not do otherwise. Would the Jewish records,
if recoverable, have another tale to tell? ...

Here is obviously a most valuable witness,
perhaps the most valuable witness
to the truth about [Yeshua]...
whom even a jury composed entirely
of orthodox Christians could not despise,
and who ought to be brought into court.
But the witness is missing, and all that we have
is a few reported statements of his
taken long ago...

...it may be argued that there has been dependence
not of 'Hebrews' on the Synoptics but vice versa--
that 'Hebrews' was one of the sources on which
one or more of them drew.
(Hugh Schonfiel; According to the Hebrews; 13-18)

Speaking of 1Cor. 15:7 David Stern writes:

The appearance to Ya'akov (James), whose mother was
also Yeshua's mother, Miriam. (Mt. 13:55-56, Mk. 6:3;
Gal. 1:19), is not mentioned elsewhere in the New Testament
but is reported in one of the apocryphal books,
the Gospel according to the Hebrews...
(Jewish New Testament Commentary on 1Cor. 15:7)

Unfortunately the Gospel according to the Hebrews is a lost Gospel. Not
one copy of this Gospel has come down to us. However about 50 quotations
and citations of the document have survived from various sources (primarily
quotations by the "Church Fathers").

What was this Gospel? Was it an original, longer version of Matthew? Was
it the synoptic source? Who wrote it? When was it composed? What did it
teach? What does it tell us about the ancient Nazarenes?

SANJ has a new book which deals with these questions and more.

THE GOODNEWS ACCORDING TO THE HEBREWS by James Trimm has a complete
introduction to the history, date and authorship as well as many other
issues. This is followed by a section containing all of the known
citations and quotations from the Gospel according to the Hebrews along
with detailed commentary from a Nazarene perspective. The final section
contains a partial reconstruction of the GOODNEWS ACCORDING TO THE HEBREWS
which places all of the quotations together in chronological order so as to
form a fragmentary copy of this lost Gospel.

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