From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Isaiah 7:14 and Matthew
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 14:18:03 -0600
Dear Raymond,
You write:
>So for me this matter is still not decided, but there is a strong tendency
>nowadays to argue that he was not a Jew.
It is highly unlikely to me that Matthew was a Gentile. Jesus was sent to
the lost sheep of the house of Israel. The twelve disciples correspond to
the twelve tribes of Israel.