GospelOfHebrews

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The Gospel of the Hebrews is a lost early Jewish-Christian gospel, known only from fragments and patristic quotations, that presented traditions about Jesus in a form distinct from the canonical Gospels.

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Label Occurrences
GospelOfHebrews canonical 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish-Christian gospel
apocryphal gospel
lost work
associatedCommunity Jewish Christians
associatedCommunityHypothesis Nazarenes
surface form: Ebionites

Nazarenes
canonicalStatus non-canonical
category Jewish Christian texts
New Testament apocrypha
christology high christology elements
containsSaying Jesus gives his burial shroud to the high priest’s servant
“My mother, the Holy Spirit, took me by one of my hairs and carried me to the great mountain Tabor”
containsTraditionAbout Holy Spirit as Jesus’ mother
baptism of Jesus
resurrection appearance to James
dateRange 1st–2nd century CE
distinctFrom Gospel of the Ebionites
Gospel of the Ebionites
surface form: Gospel of the Nazarenes
earliestPossibleDate late 1st century CE
extantForm fragments
geographicalContextHypothesis Egypt
Greater Syria
surface form: Syria-Palestine
includedInNewTestamentCanon false
isLost true
knownFrom patristic quotations
language Greek
latestCommonScholarlyDate early 2nd century CE
mentionedBy Clement of Alexandria
Didymus the Blind
Eusebius of Caesarea
Jerome
Origen
originalLanguageHypothesis Greek
portraysJesusAs Son of God
Wisdom figure
quotedInWork Commentary on Isaiah
surface form: Commentary on Isaiah (Jerome)

De viris illustribus
surface form: De viris illustribus (Jerome)

Origen’s biblical commentaries
surface form: Homilies on Jeremiah (Origen)
relationshipToCanonicalGospels distinct from canonical Gospels
shares traditions with Synoptic Gospels
religiousTradition Christianity
Jewish Christianity
scholarlyDebateTopic identity with other Jewish-Christian gospels
original language
relationship to Matthew
survivalStatus only fragments preserved
textualState reconstructed from secondary sources
usedBy Jerome
viewOfHolySpirit feminine
identified with Jesus’ mother in a symbolic sense

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Jeremiah referencedIn GospelOfHebrews