George Howard (Hebraist)

George Eulan Howard
George Eulan Howard
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

George Eulan Howard (June 3, 1935 – 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]

Life

Born in Clinton, Oklahoma, 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.

Howard was Treasurer of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS) from 1972 to 1974.[4] Due to Sidney Jellicoe's illness, Howard was temporarily editor of the Bulletin of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies.[4] From 1973 to 1979 Howard was editor of BIOSCS. In the Society of Biblical Literature Howard was chairman from 1977 to 1979, a member of the editorial board from 1979 to 1981, president Southeastern chapter from 1980 to 1981 and vice president Southeastern chapter 1982 to 1984.

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.[5][6][7][8][9]
Paul: Crisis in Galatia: A Study in Early Christian Theology, 2004[10]

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
"Bulletin of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studios" (PDF). Letters in Canada. 1973.
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."

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[1] Department of Religion, University of Georgia

[2] "UGA Department of Religion Faculty List". Archived from the original on 2011-09-10. Retrieved 2011-09-30.

[3] George Howard The Tetragram and the New Testament Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 96, No. 1 (Mar., 1977), pp. 63-83

[BIOSCS-4] "Bulletin of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studios" (PDF). Letters in Canada. 1973.

[5] 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 ,"

[6] Horbury W., Jews and Christians 2006 p40

[7] Horbury review Journal of Jewish Studies 47 (1996)

[8] Horbury Appendix in Matthew 19-28 ed. William David Davies, Dale C. Allison

[9] 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"

[10] 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."