George Howard (Hebraist)
George Eulan Howard (born June 3, 1935 in Clinton, Oklahoma; † November 21, 2018) was an American Hebraist, noted for his publication of an old Hebrew edition of Matthew. He was a full Professor Emeritus[1] and Head of the Department of Religion and Hebrew (Ret.) at the University of Georgia[2][3]
George Eulan Howard | |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation | Biblical scholar |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Hebrew Union College |
Academic work | |
Discipline | New Testament scholar |
Sub-discipline | New Testament and Early Christian Literature, Greek and Semitic Languages, Intertestamental Studies |
Institutions | University of Georgia |
Main interests | New Testament, Bible, Shem Tob's Hebrew Gospel of Matthew |
Notable works | Hebrew Gospel of Matthew The Tetragram and the New Testament |
Life
Howard received a bachelor's degree from David Lipscomb College (Nashville) in 1957, a master's degree in theology from Harding School of Theology (Memphis) in 1961, and a PhD from Hebrew Union College in 1964. He first taught at David Lipscomb College (from 1964 as Assistant Professor for Religion, 1967 Associate Professor) before moving to the University of Georgia in 1968 as Assistant Professor of Classics. There he was appointed Associate Professor for Religion in 1972 and (Full) Professor in 1978.
Works
- Hebrew Matthew Macon, GA: Mercer University, 1995.
- In "Hebrew Matthew," found in the 14th-century Hebrew work The Touchstone of Ibn Shaprut, Howard argues that parts of an original Hebrew text of the Gospel may be found. Some scholars, such as William Horbury (1999), reject this thesis and consider Ibn Shaprut's text to be a translation of a medieval Latin version into Hebrew.[4][5][6][7][8]
- Paul: Crisis in Galatia: A Study in Early Christian Theology, 2004[9]
References
- Department of Religion, University of Georgia
- "UGA Department of Religion Faculty List". Archived from the original on 2011-09-10. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
- George Howard The Tetragram and the New Testament Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 96, No. 1 (Mar., 1977), pp. 63-83
- Horbury Hebrew study from Ezra to Ben-Yehuda p128 "the Hebrew Matthew, mentioned above. 5 John Mill, in the Prolegomena to his 1707 edition of the New Testament, ... in the last few years, by George Howard. 8 Both concentrated on the du Tillet-Mercier text, but Howard also ,"
- Horbury W., Jews and Christians 2006 p40
- Horbury review Journal of Jewish Studies 47 (1996)
- Horbury Appendix in Matthew 19-28 ed. William David Davies, Dale C. Allison
- Maurice Casey Aramaic Sources of Mark's Gospel 1998 Page 61 "Hebrew found in the Evan Bohan, a fourteenth-century Jewish anti-Christian treatise by Shem-Tob ben-Isaac ben-Shaprut.208 Howard's only points of substance are that some of the translation is older than the treatise of Shem-Tob, and that"
- p xvi "Book twelve of the treatise contains the entire Gospel of Matthew in Hebrew along with polemical comments by Shem-Tob ... A comparison of this old substratum with the canonical Greek text suggests that the Hebrew reflects a Jewish."