ABBREVIATIONS AND APPENDICES
Abbreviations
For ancient sources I have used the abbreviations as provided in Alexan- der, Patrick H. et al. (ed.), , The SBL Handbook of Style: For Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Early Christian Studies.(Peabody,Mass.:Hen- drickson). In addition, I have used the following abbreviations: GH ThreeGospelHypothesis(seeIntroduction) ANF Ante-Nicene Fathers BDB Brown, et al. DA Didascalia Apostolorum GEb the Gospel of the Ebionites GHeb the Gospel of the Hebrews GNaz the “Gospel of the Nazarenes” (for quotation marks, see Introduction) GThom the Gospel of Thomas LkS Luke’s special tradition MtS Matthew’s special tradition NGH New Two Gospel Hypothesis (see Introduction) NIV New International Version NRSV New Revised Standard Version RSV Revised Standard Version
Appendix : The New Two GospelHypothesis
Translations (if not indicated otherwise) according to A.F.J. Klijn, Jewish- Christian Gospel Tradition. Leiden: Brill, .
Gospelof the Hebrews
. The baptism of Jesus a. [. . . but according to the Gospel which was written in the Hebrew languageandreadbytheNazarenes:] The whole fountain of the Holy Spirit came upon him. [Further in the Gospel which we mentioned above we find that the following is written:] abbreviations and appendices
It happened when the Lord ascended from the water, that the whole fountain of the Holy Spirit descended and rested upon him and said to him: My son, I expected you among all the prophets that you should come and that I should rest upon you. For you are my rest, you are my first-born son who shall reign in eternity.(Jerome,Comm. Isa. .–).
.b. [In the Gospel according to the Hebrews which was written in the Chaldaic and Syriac language but with Hebrew letters, and is used up to the present day by the Nazarenes, I mean that according to the Apostles, or, as many maintain, according to Matthew, which Gospel is also available in the Library of Caesarea, the story runs:] See, the mother of the Lord and his brothers said him: John the Baptist baptizes for the remission of the sins, let us go to be baptized by him. He said to them, however: What sin have I committed that I should go and be baptized by him? Unless perhaps something which I said is ignorance. (Jerome, Pelag. .; trans. Klijn , modified).
. The Holy Spirit takes Jesus to Tabor [If somebody accepts the Gospel according to the Hebrews, where the Saviour himself says:] A moment ago my Mother, the Holy Spirit, took me by one of my hairs and broughtmetothegreathill,theTabor.(Origen,Comm. Jo. ., Hom. Jer. .; Jerome, Comm. Mich..–,Comm. Isa. .–, Comm. Ezech. .).
. Matthias and Levi are the same It seems that Matthew is named Levi in the Gospel according to Luke. But they are not the same, but Matthias who replaced Judas and Levi are thesamewithadoublename.ThisappearsfromtheGospelaccordingto the Hebrews. (Didymus, Comm. Ps. ed. M. Groenewald p. ,–).
. Jesus chooses the good ones [Then he taught about the divisions of the souls which will come about in the houses, as we have found somewhere in the Gospel which exists among the Jews in the Hebrew language, in which it is said:] I choose for myself the good ones, the good ones whom my Father in heaven has given to me.(Eusebius,Theoph. Syr. .).