Who Baptized Whom? What the Hebrew Manuscripts Reveal About What Really Happened at the Jordan River
Appendices For Hebrew Matthew
The Evidence Behind "The Original Gospel" — Manuscripts, Church Fathers, and the Sacred Name Restored
From The Cochin Manuscript
When a Brooklyn hardware merchant asked Jonathan Felt if he wanted to immerse a pot in rainwater, it sparked a question his translation team couldn't shake: the same Hebrew verb used for koshering dishes — taval — is the verb used for what happened at the Jordan River. So what was John's actual role?
Drawing on five Hebrew manuscripts of Luke, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Mishnah, and Torah purification law, this essay traces a pattern that holds from Genesis to the Gospels: the person needing purification always immerses themselves. Never once, outside a single instance, is it someone else who dunks them.
Was Matthew's Gospel really written first in Hebrew — and does a copy still exist? This companion volume gathers the historical, textual, and manuscript evidence behind The Hebrew Book of Matthew. Trace the erasure of the sacred Name Yehováh through two thousand years of suppression, examine the testimony of twenty early Church Fathers who attested to a Hebrew original, compare newly translated Hebrew manuscripts side-by-side with the King James Version, and see actual page photographs from the Vatican, Cambridge, and Rylands Library collections. Whether you're a skeptic or a believer, this is primary-source research you can hold up against the "expert" consensus yourself.
- Appendix A — The Ineffable Name of Yehováh: Why the sacred Name was erased, who erased it, and the manuscript proof of its correct pronunciation and vowel pointing.
- Appendix B — Are The Hebrew Gospels Authentic? The four-part authentication method, the "Bar Rabban" evidence from Jerome, the breaking-of-the-lintel correlation across manuscripts continents apart, and dozens of verse-by-verse comparisons between the Hebrew Gospels and the KJV.
- Appendix C — Testimony of the Early Church Fathers: Twenty early Christian writers — Papias, Irenaeus, Origen, Eusebius, Jerome, and more — on the Hebrew origin of Matthew's Gospel.
- Appendix D — The Matthew Manuscripts: Photographs and provenance of the surviving Hebrew manuscripts: the Hebrew Gospels from Catalonia, the Cochin Hebrew Gospels, the Shem Tov Touchstone, Freiburg, Munster, and DuTillet texts.
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