What "Matthew" Really Wrote: A Radical New Translation of Matthew's Gospel

All Bible scholars are aware that Matthew's Gospel contains a great deal of material added by editors and copyists in the first few centuries. Most Bibles draw attention to some of these obvious insertions, but few have the courage to identify the lot. In this radical new translation of Matthew's Gospel, Bible scholar, John Howard Reid, identifies all dubious material. He also differentiates the original Old Testament proof texts Matthew incorporated in his Gospel from those texts (both authentic and spurious) added by early and later editors. All quotes from Scripture have also been restored to Matthew's original renderings from the Greek Septuagint. In addition, this book provides new translations of Paul's Letters to Timothy and Titus. Although these letters were not actually written by Paul -- a statement that most Bible scholars would endorse -- they do provide valuable insights into topics (such as vegetarianism and genealogies) that most churchmen studiously avoid.