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Talmud Jmmanuel Research
The research and analysis of Dr. James W. Deardorff, organized to make its subjects, arguments, comparisons, phrases, and source material easier to discover.
A guided beginning
Start with the central questions
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How was the TJ discovered?
The account of the 1963 discovery, Isa Rashid’s translation, and the surviving German text.
02What does the TJ contain?
An overview of its narrative, teachings, relationship to Matthew, and central claims.
03What is the case for genuineness?
Deardorff’s accumulated reasons for treating the text as more than a modern invention.
04Which questions does it address?
Problems and puzzles in familiar gospel accounts examined alongside the TJ.
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Research pathways
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Matthew compared with the TJ
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Gospel origins and priority
- External evidence for Matthew before Mark
- Order of Mark’s pericopes
- Markan foreknowledge of Matthew
- Markan textual changes
- Unsuccessful Markan changes
- Responses to anti-gentile statements
- Changes for the sake of change
- Semitic Matthew and Greek translation
- Modified Augustinian Hypothesis
- Statistical study of gospel priority
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Evidence, ufology, and witnesses
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Historical and theological context
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