Daily Archives: 20/03/2025

I’ve been working through an English translation of a Hebrew manuscript of Matthew’s gospel, called the Du Tillet manuscript. It is interesting in having a plausible claim to being closely related to Matthew’s original Hebrew autograph on which the canonical Greek version is based. The manuscript was published in 1555, having been confiscated from a Jewish scholar in Rome when the Pope passed an edict banning the Talmud, leading of course to the grabbing of anything in Hebrew, which few Gentiles could read. We know nothing of its prior provenance.