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According to James Hasting's Encyclopædia of religion and ethics (1914) the presentation in the Gospel of the Hebrews is lifelike, Jewish, and primitive, sometimes bordering on the grotesque and drawing near to the apocalyptic texts. The gospel does not bear the marks of having been constructed to inculcate any particular theological tenets, with the exception its Jewish view as to the origin and nature of Christ. It is, in the main, a simple historical narrative whose purpose seems to have been to preserve the living, evangelical tradition for present and future use. Although the Gospel of the Hebrews was not identical to the Greek Gospel of Matthew found in the Bible, they were similar.
According to the 8th Century Stichometry of Nicephorus the Gospel of the Hebrews was 2200 lines, just 300 lines shorter than Gospel of Matthew. Scholars have been able to study much of the theological structure because of the Fathers of the Early Church.
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