James R. Edwards | |
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Born | 1945 (age 77–78) |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | New Testament scholar |
Title | Professor Emeritus of Theology |
Awards | Templeton Grant in Science and Religion (1996); recipient of Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst Award (1993) |
Academic background | |
Education | Whitworth University, Princeton Theological Seminary, University of Zürich, University of Tübingen |
Alma mater | Fuller Theological Seminary (PhD) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Biblical studies |
Sub-discipline | NT studies |
Institutions | Whitworth University |
Notable works | The Hebrew Gospel and the Development of the Synoptic Tradition (2009) |
James R. Edwards (born 1945) is an American New Testament scholar. [1] His primary research interests include Biblical studies and the history of the early church,with secondary interests in the Reformation and history of the twentieth-century German Church struggle. After gaining degrees from Whitworth University (B.A.),Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div.),and Fuller Theological Seminary (Ph.D.),and further study at the University of Zurich and the University of Tübingen,Tyndale House (Cambridge),and the Center of Theological Inquiry (Princeton),in 1997 he joined the faculty at Whitworth University,Spokane,Washington. He continues his work as Professor Emeritus of Theology. [2]
In 2009,Edwards advanced a controversial theory that the synoptic Gospels are partly dependent on the "Hebrew Gospel",which includes the Gospel of the Hebrews,a syncretistic Jewish–Christian text believed by most scholars to have been composed in Koine Greek,the Hebrew Gospel hypothesis of Lessing and others,and traditions of a writing of Matthew's supposed to have been written by him “in the Hebrew language”(Papias) and Hebrew Gospel of Matthew,1385,a rabbinical translation of Matthew's gospel.[ clarification needed ] [3] [4] [5] Edwards argues that patristic citations from "the Hebrew Gospel" correlate more distinctly and repeatedly with sections called "Special Luke" in the Gospel of Luke than with either the Gospel of Matthew or the Gospel of Mark. [6]
Two separate reviews were published by the Society of Biblical Literature in which the reviewers were not convinced of Edwards' thesis. [7] [8] John S. Kloppenborg also reviewed Edwards' thesis negatively. [9]
Edwards also rejects the modern division,by Schneemelcher and others,of the Jewish-Christian Gospels' fragments into three or more separate lost Gospels.
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Matthew the Apostle is named in the New Testament as one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. According to Christian traditions, he was also one of the four Evangelists as author of the Gospel of Matthew, and thus is also known as Matthew the Evangelist.
M source, which is sometimes referred to as M document, or simply M, comes from the M in "Matthean material". It is a hypothetical textual source for the Gospel of Matthew. M Source is defined as that 'special material' of the Gospel of Matthew that is neither Q source nor Mark.
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