@Bucky Ball If you call me an ignorant amateur, have you published any papers about social sciences? Because I have, most recently about the river names in Croatia, and that paper got mentioned by Glas Slavonije (you can read an English-language summary of that paper on my blog). What qualifications do you have to talk about the matters of social sciences?
It's undeniable that Matthew claimed that the prophets predicted many things in Jesus'es life in the Messianic prophecies, the Gospel of Matthew is full of such claims. What Jews actually believed is another question entirely. You think the Jews didn't believe the Messiah would come? Sounds like a very weird claim. Even more extraordinary than that the authors of the Bible didn't believe in afterlife (when mediums such as the Witch of Endor are being discussed in the Bible).
It's undeniable that Matthew claimed that the prophets predicted many things in Jesus'es life in the Messianic prophecies, the Gospel of Matthew is full of such claims. What Jews actually believed is another question entirely. You think the Jews didn't believe the Messiah would come? Sounds like a very weird claim. Even more extraordinary than that the authors of the Bible didn't believe in afterlife (when mediums such as the Witch of Endor are being discussed in the Bible).
