STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE GOSPEL TO THE JEWS Author’s Note: This analysis of the Gospel of Matthew asks what Scriptures the first Jewish Christians were most likely to have accepted and how that evidence informs the canon debate. There were 115 New Testament cross-references with Apocrypha in the original 1611…
PART I: THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE AND THE JEWISH BIBLE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE 1611 KJV CROSS-REFERENCES Author’s Note: The cross-references printed in the original 1611 King James Bible provide a window into how earlier generations of Protestants understood the relationship between the New Testament and the Deuterocanonical books, and how…
Author’s Note: This section examines whether the “Old Testament” used by the Jews at the time of Christ corresponds to the modern Protestant canon or to the broader Scriptures preserved by the Catholic (and Orthodox) Churches.
