Endnote 10 – Was The Gospel of Matthew Originally Written In Hebrew?
These studies include Jehoshua M. Grintz, “Hebrew as the Spoken and Written Language in the Last Days of the Second Temple,” Journal of Biblical Literature (JBL) 79 (1960), pp. 32–47; John A. Emerton, “Did Jesus Speak Hebrew?” Journal of Theological Studies (JTS) 12 (1961), pp. 189–202; Emerton, “The Problem of Vernacular Hebrew in the First Century A.D. and the Language of Jesus,” JTS 24 (1973), pp. 1–23; Jean Carmignac, “Studies in the Hebrew Background of the Synoptic Gospels,” Annual of the Swedish Theological Institute 7 (1970), pp. 64–93; Pinchas Lapide, “Insights from Qumran into the Language of Jesus,” Revue de Qumran 32 (1975), pp. 483–501; William Chomsky, “What Was the Jewish Vernacular During the Second Commonwealth?” Jewish Quarterly Review 42 (1951–52), pp. 193–212. See further James Barr, “Which Language Did Jesus Speak?—Some Remarks of a Semitist,” Bulletin of John Rylands University Library, Manchester, England, 53 (1970), pp.9–29.