Shalom Chaverim,
I cannot over state this. We are in a new era of Hebrew and Aramaic NT studies. In the 20th Century, with the resources that existed at that time (before the internet as we know it), I tracked down a great many resources for the time. I obtained a copy of the DuTillet Hebrew manuscript of Matthew from the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris France (this was a whole process in the 1980’s that took several months). I tracked down and obtained copies to Munster’s 1537 edition of Hebrew Matthew from a manuscript which he obtained “from the Jews”. I tracked down and obtained a facsimile of the 1551 Paris edition of Hebrew Matthew with marginal notes, published by Munster’s student Iohannes Quinquaboreus Aurilascensis. I obtained a facsimile of the Hebrew version of Hebrew which Munster had obtained from the Jews, published after his death as an appendix to a 1557 reprinting of his Hebrew Matthew. I obtained the actual Greek of the marginal notes to certain Greek manuscripts of Matthew, giving alternate readings from the “Judaikon” (Jewish version). And I also tracked down all of the citations from the “Gospel according to the Hebrews” as quoted in the Church Fathers, in the original Syriac, Greek and Latin in which they were quoted. Meanwhile my old friend Dr. George Howard had obtained and published the Hebrew text of Shem Tob’s Hebrew Matthew. And of course, I obtained copies of Aramaic NT manuscripts that were readily accessible.) All of this was a monumental task in the late twentieth century.
But as the internet has grown, libraries around the world have digitized and cataloged materials online! And over the last couple of years researchers, (not myself) as online sleuths, have tracked down and recovered dozens of previously unknown Hebrew manuscripts of New Testament books. An individual who has acted as a hub for collecting this material into one place, is Dr Albert Garza. Dr. Garza recently mailed me a thumb drive containing dozens of such manuscripts consisting of literally thousands of pages of manuscripts from libraries all over the world! I have to say, it is a bit overwhelming.
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Of course locating and obtaining facsimiles of such manuscripts is only the first part of the job. The manuscript pages are often written in a “messy” hand and often in obscure scripts. And the job of sorting out of this massive amount of material, that which may be related to an original Hebrew and Aramaic “New Testament” and that which is merely a medieval Hebrew translation made from a Greek or Latin source, is a monumental task which has only just begun, and will take countless hours of time with “my nose in the scrolls”. Fortunately, my life experience up until now was designed to give me talents required to work at this monumental task! But it will take a lot of time and effort.
That’s why I need your help today! Can you donate to support this important last days Scripture restoration by clicking here?
That said, I need your help. As you know, my wife is chronically ill, disabled and suffering from chronic pain. And now, I too am suffering from a nervous system disorder, which has so far only been diagnosed as “polyneuropathy,” but we are pretty sure that is only a stand in, until an actual cause can be found. I am having partial paralysis and pain in my legs, as well as some other neurological symptoms. I am undergoing a lot of tests and am seeing two specialists, one of which is a neurologist. We don’t yet know what is causing my symptoms, but some of the possibilities are pretty dark. This last week I had an MRI of my brain done, I have not heard back on the results.
We are facing a lot of added medical expenses. The co-pay on my MRI alone was nearly $100, and I just picked up prescriptions for my wife and I that totaled $150 after insurance! We really need your financial support today.
We need your financial support now more than ever! We must raise at least $516 to cover bills clearing our account tonight!
As you know we have been digging ourselves out of a budget shortfall. As I have said to you many times, I look on this work as a co-operative one with me, and all of you combining our resources together in order to get the job done of helping to teach this great truth to all in the world who will listen. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for your continued support, you are the ones who make it all possible by your contributions and your prayers for our work. I truly appreciate your help in every way.
If you can make a one time donation of $500 or $1,000 dollars to support this work.
