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  2. Origen - Wikipedia

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    Origen obeyed Demetrius's order and returned to Alexandria, [60] bringing with him an antique scroll he had purchased at Jericho containing the full text of the Hebrew Bible. [60] The manuscript, which had purportedly been found "in a jar", [60] became the source text for one of the two Hebrew columns in Origen's Hexapla. [60]

  3. Bishop - Wikipedia

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    The words bishop and ordination are used in their technical meaning by the same Clement of Alexandria. [21] The bishops in the 2nd century are defined also as the only clergy to whom the ordination to priesthood (presbyterate) and diaconate is entrusted: "a priest (presbyter) lays on hands, but does not ordain." (cheirothetei ou cheirotonei). [22]

  4. Textual variants in the Hebrew Bible - Wikipedia

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    This list provides examples of known textual variants, and contains the following parameters: Hebrew texts written right to left, the Hebrew text romanised left to right, an approximate English translation, and which Hebrew manuscripts or critical editions of the Hebrew Bible this textual variant can be found in. Greek (Septuagint) and Latin (Vulgate) texts are written left to right, and not ...

  5. Gospel of the Hebrews - Wikipedia

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    Origen is the ecclesiastical writer most closely associated with using the Gospel of the Hebrews as a prooftext for scriptural exegesis. [1]The Gospel of the Hebrews (Koinē Greek: τὸ καθ' Ἑβραίους εὐαγγέλιον, romanized: tò kath' Hebraíous euangélion), or Gospel according to the Hebrews, is a lost Jewish–Christian gospel. [2]

  6. Development of the Old Testament canon - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew Bible (or Tanakh) consists of 24 books of the Masoretic Text recognized by Rabbinic Judaism. [14] There is no scholarly consensus as to when the Hebrew Bible canon was fixed, with some scholars arguing that it was fixed by the Hasmonean dynasty (140-40 BCE), [15] while others arguing that it was not fixed until the 2nd century CE or even later. [16]

  7. Masoretic Text - Wikipedia

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    The 1866 edition, however, was carefully checked against old manuscripts and early printed editions, and has a very legible typeface. It is probably the most widely reproduced text of the Hebrew Bible in history, with many dozens of authorised reprints and many more pirated and unacknowledged ones. [59] Seligman Baer and Franz Delitzsch, 1869 ...

  8. Hebrew Gospel hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Modern variants of the Hebrew gospel hypothesis survive, but have not found favor with scholars as a whole. The foundation of the Hebrew gospel hypothesis is usually an early Christian tradition from the 2nd-century bishop Papias of Hierapolis. According to Papias, Matthew the Apostle was the first to compose a gospel, and he did so in Hebrew.

  9. Augustinian hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    St. Augustine Freeing A Prisoner, by Michael Pacher (1482). The hypothesis takes its name from Augustine of Hippo, an early 5th century bishop and church father, who wrote: "Now, those four evangelists whose names have gained the most remarkable circulation over the whole world, and whose number has been fixed as four, ...are believed to have written in the order which follows: first Matthew ...