The Hebrew Yeshua Vs. the Greek Jesus: New Light on the Seat of Moses from Shem-Tov's Hebrew Matthew

Nehemia Gordon, a scholar of Hebrew manuscripts, examines a Hebrew text of the Gospel of Matthew preserved in the fourteenth-century Shem-Tov manuscript and compares it with the familiar Greek version. He focuses on a passage that refers to the seat of Moses, showing how the Hebrew wording offers a different reading from the one found in standard translations. Drawing on manuscript evidence and close comparison of the two texts, the book argues that the Hebrew version may preserve an older tradition, and it asks readers to reconsider how the figure of Yeshua relates to the Jesus of Greek-language Christianity.