Judaism needs Christianity to stand up under the Historical method

C/P: "None of the figures in the T'nach/Old Testament stand under historical scrutiny. " You're opening thesis statement. . . Simply absurd. Torah does not teach history but rather the spirituality of morality. Stories do not require real life people, Any more than does the fable of Jack and Jill. C/P: "I will spend this first post discussing why the Gospels are historical documents of Antiquity in Ancient Palestine under the occupation of the Roman Empire. " No discussion of these vile counterfeit documents merits consideration without addressing the fundamental issue as to why all the existing manuscripts of the noise testament the authors chose to write in Greek and not Hebrew or Aramaic, The language spoken by the Jewish people? Who then qualifies as the target audience of the Noise testament? Goyim not Jews. C/P: "I will be using the works of Dr. Craig Blomberg an American New Testament scholar. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of the New Testament at Denver Seminary in Colorado where he has been since 1986. His areas of academic expertise are the New Testament. " Your reliance upon Mr. Blomberg proves that you have no working knowledge not of Hebrew, Aramaic, Or Greek. My limitations exclude discussing the Greek manuscripts b/c as you have ignorance in Hebrew and Aramaic so too myself with Greek. But this does not bother me, B/c Xtianity exists as a foreign alien religion outside of Torah faith. 1) Numbers do not replace quality. The Dead Sea Scroll discovery - manuscripts of the T'NaCH Books which predate the earliest surviving manuscripts of the T'NaCH by over a 1000 years! The amazing duplication between the later and earlier manuscripts - totally identical texts! That's amazing. C/P: "The art and science of textual criticism" This late 19th century protestant "higher criticism", Utter speculation. The approach to this foreign alien method of scholarship fails miserably to address the intent of the framers of the texts. Rather higher criticizes language obscurities with the theory that different authors wrote the Books codified in the T'NaCH. The Book of Isaiah they premise in their higher criticism theory has multiple authors. The fundamental flaw of protestant higher criticism, It fails to grasp that the prophets commanded rebukes which teach Torah morality. This instruction comes under the name of mussar. The Book of Proverbs specifically talks about the importance of mussar. The prophets teach mussar and do not talk about mussar as does the Book of proverbs/Mishle. C/P: "With 97 to 99 percent accuracy" Noise. Percentage of accuracy refers to statistical data based upon random samples. Statistics does not apply in the study of ancient manuscripts. Statistics can not comprehend the concept of morality. C/P: "A few verses from John 18 dating to around A. D. 125" Bunk on the dating, Simply don't buy it. But even if its correct, The book of john - written almost 100 years after the events it claims to have personally witnessed. Mr. Homo, How does the Torah view false witness testimony? C/P: "We are within one generation of that document's original composition. " Bunk on speculation. Fact, Even by the most generous and liberal estimation "one or two generation gap" between the mythical imaginary events which the noise testament jabbers about. C/P: "For most other ancient works, At least several centuries elapse between the originals and the oldest existing copies. " Bunk. Torah teaches the spirituality of morality. The stories of the Torah and NaCH do not require a historical basis in fact any more than does the story of Jack and Jill where Jack went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. The noise testament by contrast foists the fable of jesus son of Zeus as a factual historical character. This fundamental distinction, Its where protestant 'higher criticism' falls totally flat. The foreign alien protestant fools never attempt to address the moral instruction in their 'higher criticism". These barbarian immoral pigs produced the perpetrators of genocide. C/P: "Something which we are often not at all sure of about other ancient writers. " The noise testament shares nothing with teaching the discipline of raising a Moral Man. Rape slaughter oppression and murder define the entire history of church domination of Europe and the evil spread of the European empires across the world. Niggar 200 years ago your butt white Xtians sold in auctions. 2) fails totally to explain the sharp contrast between the gospel none sense as opposed by the Pauline propaganda. How did the man who participated in the violent murder of Stephen. Nor does the fact that the stoning flagrantly violated Torah law does the Book of Act even remotely consider. 3) Bunk. The earliest manuscripts on papyrus are divided into three primary groups: the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, The Chester Beatty/Michigan Papyri, And the Bodmer Papyri. This collection contains one papyrus that dates to the second century, While others date to the late third or early fourth century. Almost the entire New Testament could be reproduced by quotes from the ancient church fathers. "So extensive are these citations that if all other sources for our knowledge of the text of the New Testament were destroyed, They would be sufficient alone for the reconstruction of practically the entire New Testament" (Metzger & Ehrman, 2005). Papyrus 52 (P52), Which contains a small fragment of John"s gospel, (18. 31-33, 37-38) is considered to be the earliest copy of New Testament text. Discovered in 1934 by C. H. Roberts, It is believed to have been copied no later than 150 AD but no earlier than 100 AD. 4) The Holy Writings of the NaCH literature compare to the Gemara of the Talmudic literature. Just as the Gemara serves as the primary commentary to the 6 Orders of the Mishna, So too the Holy Writings, Tehillem/Psalms, For example serves as the primary commentary by which to learn the mussar which the prophets commanded. Quoting a Holy Writing work without referencing it to a Prophetic source of mussar - bad scholarship on par with quoting a halachic ruling made by the Rambam without bringing the sugia of Gemara which that halachic ruling came from. Learning a specific into its larger context, That's just fundamental correct scholarship. Goyim Xtians have lived in physical exile waiting for the 2nd cumming of their myth the son of Zeus. 5) C/P: "But first-century Judaism was an oral culture" Bunk. A statement made by a foreign outsider alien. Perhaps you come from Mars? Oral Torah its a logic system. The compilation of the works Mishna and Gemara stand based upon this logic system. Knowing the logic system, That's a discipline passed down from rabbi to student to this very day. The Mishna's Common Law Case/Rule style employs Hebrew logic and not Greek logic. You as an alien outsider do not know the difference between the two logic formats. Rote learning the prophet Isaiah totally condemned! Rote learning of memorization of texts = childrens learning, On par with a 1st grader reading the story of Jack and Jill! 6) The amazing precision between earlier and later T'NaCH manuscripts, Mentioned above, Totally contrasts with the vast discrepancies and blatant contradictions within the noise testament books. These books stand upon myths and lies. They do not attempt to instruct a moral man. 7) You ask an open question. Therefore it merits no comment. 8) Only proves how poorly written and edited the noise testament which Xtians worship as holy. How does the Torah define holy? You do not know. 9) This religion based upon mythology had allot of problems. The church slaughter of heretics who rejected church dogma proves this conclusively. 10) The noise testament knows nothing of the concept of K'dushin in Jewish marriage. The birth of the son of Zeus totally profanes Torah law and custom. The perversion of this false messiah walks in the error of Korach and the 250 elders in the days of Moshe who sought to replace Aaron with someone else as the Cohen ie the anointed messiah/moshiach. The story of Samuel anointed Shaul/Saul [same dude the agent provocateur Paul was named after], That king lost the kingdom b/c he failed to obey the commandments [all the commandments not just the Xtian stupidity of 10 commandments]. The anointing of David as king stands in the shadow of king Shaul's lose of the kingdom! The noise testament fails to address the prophet Sh'muel's anointing of the house of David to fill the role of Moshe the law giver. Moshe anointed Aaron as Moshiach. Moshiach means dedicated to HaShem with a specific purpose. The anointing of David - to obey the 613 commandments which Moshe the prophet commanded 611 of these commandments in the Name of the God of Israel; the anointing of Aaron and his house: holy to dedicate tohor Oral Torah middot. No foreign outsider knows what tohor means. No alien from another planet knows what middot means; much less how these middot define Oral Torah logic.