By the first century, the Jewish Bible had been preserved in both Hebrew and Greek—and Matthew ... tradition into the backdrop of Jesus’s birth narrative. A Baby Who Lived During Isaiah ...

they sought to find mention of him in the Hebrew Bible itself. This is why so much of the story of Jesus in the gospels quotes the Bible. This move was not without precedent. The Dead Sea ...

It was his Bible ... the virgin birth or the appearance of the angels to the shepherds. The resurrection is not even mentioned. Jefferson discovered a Jesus who was a great Teacher of Common ...