The Gospels were written in Greek after the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in the war with the Romans, which event the Gospels are post-factum "predicting". Since the Greeks are most famous for writting satire, how should we interpret the similarities between Jesus and Josephus?
Jesus walked all over Israel warning people that their whole nation would be destroyed by the kingdom of God in his "second coming" within one generation if they did not repent of their sins. Forty years later, in ~70 AD, Josephus was captured by the Romans and carried with them all over Israel telling them that God's favor had gone over to the Romans and He was on their side, the Romans were now the kingdom of God, and they would be destroyed if they did not repent of their seditions and the entire nation was then destroyed.
Jesus was constantly saying "woe" to the scribes and Pharisees while Josephus was constantly cursing the Greek writers and the Jewish rebels while praising the Romans as the kingdom of God.
Jesus was the son of God and "the only son begotten of the Father" while Josephus was the adopted son of Vespasian who was a deified Roman emperor after he was be-gotten by him in the siege of Jotapata, the only son not begotten by his wife Domitilla.
Josephus frequently complained that the Greek satirists were mocking his histories:
“…He adds another Grecian fable, in order to reproach us…”
– Flavius Josephus Against Apion, Book II :8
“…There have been indeed some bad men, who have attempted to calumniate my history, and took it to be a kind of scholastic performance for the exercise of young men. A strange sort of accusation and calumny this!…”
– Flavius Josephus Against Apion, Book I, 1:10
What if the Gospels were originally intended as a satire of Josephus' writings.
In fact, it seems there are hundreds of these apparent satires of Josephus in the New Testament. Here are just a few:
http://postflaviana.org/community/index.php?threads/jesus-walks-on-water.1963/
http://postflaviana.org/community/index.php?threads/jesus-stills-the-storm.1934/
http://postflaviana.org/community/index.php?threads/jesus-heals-on-the-sabbath.1956/
http://postflaviana.org/community/index.php?threads/the-last-supper.1936/
http://postflaviana.org/community/index.php?threads/the-parable-of-the-patches-and-wineskins.1939/
http://postflaviana.org/community/index.php?threads/spiritual-sight-and-blindness.1933/
http://postflaviana.org/community/index.php?threads/jesus-heals-bartimaeus.1943/
http://postflaviana.org/community/index.php?threads/the-star-of-bethlehem.1929/
http://postflaviana.org/community/index.php?threads/jesus-finds-philip.1932/
http://postflaviana.org/community/index.php?threads/the-seven-seals-of-the-apocalypse.1931/
https://www.amazon.com/Revealing-Man-Sin-prophecies-fulfillment-ebook/dp/B01M1NVLVJ/
Intredasting but i don't think that many Greeks were that knowledgeable of Judaism and Jewish ways present in the Gospels.
>>1953966
Of course they were, Josephus wrote "Antiquities of the Jews", "The Wars of the Jews" and "The Life of Flavius Josephus" in Greek especially so that the Greeks could learn about the Jewish history. And right after the "greatest war that either God or men ever b
"WHEREAS the war which the Jews made with the Romans hath been the
greatest of all those, not only that have been in our times, but, in a manner, of those that
ever were heard of" and "those that therein
perished exceeded all the destructions that either men or God ever brought upon the
world" this was the biggest news in the ancient world and in fact Vespasian went from general in that war to become the emperor of Rome, so that would have been the news of the day for a long time and those histories that Josephus, the adopted son of the living God, wrote would have been well read by the Greeks. And nothing in the Gospels or book of Revelation show any knowledge of anything besides those three works of Josephus as far as Judaism, language, typology and history. The gospels very much repeat the peculiar speaking style of Josephus.
>>1953966
The Gospels are a satire of The Antiquities of the Jews, The Wars of the Jews and the Life of Flavius Josephus and they have all the Judaism that you see in the New Testament.