Jim Davila’s PaleoJudaica blog has an entry mentioning an opinion piece in the Toronto Star about a story in the Talmud about Rabbi Gamaliel apparently quoting from the Gospel of Matthew (c. 72) and what this means for the existence of an early publication of the Gospel of Matthew, usually thought to have been written in the 80s. Davila notes how the newspaper piece did not even cite the appropriate part of the Talmud and properly brings up several points to be cautious about, particularly in how to date traditions in the Talmud.
This story has made its rounds a few months ago, when the TC-list briefly discussed a similar story in the Kansas City Star on June 7, 2003 (sorry but my link to that story has already rotted). Stephen Goranson gave the following references behind the information on July 2, from which I briefly quote:
The text Israel J. Yuval refers to is Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 116 a-
b. Yuval’s footnote refers to Burton Visotzky, “Overturning the Lamp,”
JJS 38 (1987) 72-80. Visotsky’s article is more nuanced than the
newspaper article.