Jesus put his stamp throughout the Hebrew OT. It's the name of God that is never translated (Aleph Tav). Also, the OT paints a picture of who Jesus will be when he comes. But the nation was expecting a God who would be a national / military leader, not a sacrifice for sin. Yet the OT reveals the need and requirement for a once for all sacrifice for sin. The NT reveals this God who has always loved humanity, but has been so far removed from God that they don't see their need for God. God made it easy for people to come to him, but men (and women) and religion made it difficult by adding rules and regulations and many distractions.
Anyone who wanted to create a believable NT would absolutely need to be intimately familiar with the OT inside and out. The NT is about fulfilling prophecies of the OT, and, making claims of future prophecies. Claims that would come true in Josephus's War of the Jews. The only historian who covered Israel during the Siege of Jerusalem (70 AD).
The point of concern is if Josephus's historic account of the time period, which Biblical Scholars swear by and have for centuries+, was written alongside the Gospels. Thereby making the prophecies appear omniscient only after the fact.
Jesus put his stamp throughout the Hebrew OT. It's the name of God that is never translated (Aleph Tav). Also, the OT paints a picture of who Jesus will be when he comes. But the nation was expecting a God who would be a national / military leader, not a sacrifice for sin. Yet the OT reveals the need and requirement for a once for all sacrifice for sin. The NT reveals this God who has always loved humanity, but has been so far removed from God that they don't see their need for God. God made it easy for people to come to him, but men (and women) and religion made it difficult by adding rules and regulations and many distractions.
Anyone who wanted to create a believable NT would absolutely need to be intimately familiar with the OT inside and out. The NT is about fulfilling prophecies of the OT, and, making claims of future prophecies. Claims that would come true in Josephus's War of the Jews. The only historian who covered Israel during the Siege of Jerusalem (70 AD).
The point of concern is if Josephus's historic account of the time period, which Biblical Scholars swear by and have for centuries+, was written alongside the Gospels. Thereby making the prophecies appear omniscient only after the fact.