Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-341) and indexes.

Introduction -- Genesis of a thesis -- A panorama of modern research on the Hebrew Gospel -- References to a "Hebrew Gospel" in early Christianity -- Papias -- Irenaeus -- Pantaenus -- Clement of Alexandria -- Hegesippus -- Hippolytus -- Origen -- Eusebius -- Ephrem the Syrian -- Didymus of Alexandria -- Epiphanius -- John Chrysostom -- Jerome -- Theodoret of Cyrrhus -- Marius Mercator -- Philip Sidetes -- Venerable Bede -- Scholia in codex sinaiticus -- Islamic hadith -- Quotations from the Hebrew Gospel in early Christianity -- Ignatius -- Origen -- Eusebius -- Epiphanius -- Jerome -- Taking stock of the Hebrew Gospel in early Christianity -- The Hebrew Gospel was widespread and widely known in early Christianity -- The Hebrew Gospel was endowed with unusual authority in early Christianity -- The Hebrew Gospel is not a compilation -- Of the synoptic gospels, but repeatedly and distinctly similar to Luke -- The Hebrew Gospel was most plausibly a source of the Gospel of Luke -- The relation of the Hebrew Gospel to other "Jewish Christian Gospels" -- Semitisms in the Gospel of Luke -- Luke's semitic vocabulary -- The nature of semitisms -- Semitisms in the Gospel of Luke -- Luke's prologue -- The Hebrew Gospel -- The task -- The Septuagint hypothesis -- The Aramaic hypothesis -- The use of Hebrew and Aramaic among Jews in first-century Palestine -- The probability of a Christian text like the Hebrew Gospel being written in Hebrew -- Luke's use of a Hebrew source -- The neglect of the Hebrew Gospel in Christian tradition -- Why is there no extant copy of Hebrew Matthew? -- Resistance to a Hebrew ancestor in the family -- Adieu to "Q" -- The challenge -- The genesis of "Q" -- Is there a precedent for "Q" in early Christianity? -- "Q" and Luke -- Adieu to "Q" -- The Hebrew Gospel and the Gospel of Matthew -- Matthean posteriority -- The authorship of canonical Matthew.