Why Matthew Didn't Write Matthew

Part Two: Responding to the Argument from Money

In the first part of this series, I listed several reasons why many scholars are unconvinced of Matthean authorship. Most importantly, the attestation of our Greek text to Matthew is late, and the internal evidence overwhelmingly fails to support the contention that it was written by an eyewitness.

Yet not all are persuaded. In recent decades, scholarly…