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Gideon, the claim that the NT was written 300 years after Jesus is a claim of unbelievers that is not sustainable. I have heard of this Yeshua ben Pantera claim , and I believe that it is also unsustainable. In answer to an earlier question by Uri, I passed on the suggestion that I heard from a scholar who believes the NT that the LXX was modified to match the NT interpretations (not quotes) of the Hebrew Bible. You call that a "xian forgery". Perhaps you are right.

I am neither Jew nor Christian, nor am I bound by their opinion or that of anyone else. There are elements of the n.t. that are virtually undistinguishable from the story of Yeshua ben Pantera. He was a member of the Notzrim, a rebel group. The very fact that the n.t. quotes the LXX versions of the scriptures means that either they were written after the LXX, or that the LXX is the Xian forgery. It really doesn't matter to me which is true. The authors of the n.t. were pretty much oblivious of Jewish customs, beliefs, and the Hebrew language. They had Jesus eating bread, not matzoh, on Pesach, they had fanciful inventions (the releasing of a prisoner on Pesach) which are unsubstantiated by outside sources, and contain numerous events (the slaughter of the innocents, the simultaneous earthquake cum eclipse cum zombies rising from the dead and marching on Jerusalem come to mind) that no one else, even Josephus, knew about. Thomas, you ignored my comment about your Yeshu praying. It could have been a beautiful moment in which he revealed his total humanity by submitting to Hashem, but you xians have bastardized the original meaning. He did not say, "Me, why have you abandoned me?" or, "into my own hands I commend my spirit". Of, course, why would a God have a "spirit"?
It makes no difference that the writers of the n.t. messed up on the spelling of one or more words.You have to admit that there were numerous such errors in the n.t. It was hastily written in the fourth century, by bishops to please the emperor, otherwise, they might have done a better job. IMHO, there are errors in the tanach, but they are minor compared to the outright guffaws by the n.t. writers.