A friend recently sent me an ad that had been prominently displayed in the April 7th issue of the New York Times Book Review. It proclaimed that the book Eyewitness to Jesus: Amazing New Manuscript Evidence About the Origin of the Gospels (New York: Doubleday, 1996) held “material proof…of a discovery that rivals that of the Dead Sea Scrolls”—that three small papyrus fragments had been redated, proving that “the Gospel of Matthew may have been written as early as A.D. 40.” “Proof of Jesus’ life was there all along but no one noticed…until now,” it declared in large […]
