[Campion]

Curious that the Hebrew documents prior to the third century are all missing.

Not too surprising, since many of the Jewish Christians apostatized and returned to Judaism. The oldest extant manuscripts of the Syriac (= Aramaic) Peshitta date from the 5th C, I think.

But this is an amusing discussion, since it's usually Catholics who take the position that Matthew may have been originally written in Hebrew (or Aramaic). Composition in either language destroys the usual Protestant argument that petros in Mt 16 means "little pebble".

[Uri’el-2012]

But this is an amusing discussion, since it's usually Catholics who take the position that Matthew may have been originally written in Hebrew (or Aramaic). Composition in either language destroys the usual Protestant argument that petros in Mt 16 means "little pebble".

Interesting.

Could you point me to the citations.
I seem not to be able to locate such.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach