Introduction
This book is a new attempt, hopefully to be the last, in the search for the sources which were relied upon by the Gospel authors to compose the Gospels.
Despite many attempts and efforts by scholars and researchers to detect the sources of the Gospels over the past centuries, they are unable to reach a decisive conclusion in determining their sources, due to several factors, such as, the loss of the original manuscripts, the ignorance of the history of their authors, the ignorance of the exact date of writing them, the lack of understanding of the purpose of their writing and the way and the approach of writing, as well as the Lack of thorough understanding of the relationship between them and the Old Testament, both in texts or principles and concepts, and finally the lack of knowledge about the sects whom have believed in Christ as a prophet and messenger, not as a god and the son of God, such as the Arians and others.
Because of this, I endeavored in this book to overcome many of these factors, and relied in the detection of these sources through search in the relationship between the Old Testament and the Gospels, both in the principles and concepts of the Old Testament and the texts which had been quoted in the Gospels by the authors.
Also, I studied the meaning of the word Gospel, and the way of writing the Gospels, to solve the question of how they had been written, if it was through the revelation and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, or it was written for a particular purpose, away from the revelation and the Holy Spirit.
The book is divided into five sections, a preface, three chapters and a conclusion.
In the preface, I have briefly reviewed a part of the history of the Gospels and the most famous theories and scholars that have searched for the gospels sources, and I mentioned some of the newly discovered Gospels.
In the first chapter, I explained the most important principles and concepts of the Old Testament and compared them with the principles and concepts of the Gospels.
In the second chapter, I studied the meaning of the word gospel and the purpose of the Gospels authors to write them. Also showed the existence of several lost gospels, which had been preached by the Apostles and the disciples.
In the third chapter, I showed the way of writing the Gospels, as well as I studied the texts of the Old Testament that were quoted by the Gospels authors; given the numerous of texts and the variety of ways of citation, it was divided into several sections, as shown below:
In the first section, I showed several texts in the Gospels that have been attributed to the Old Testament, while they are not written in it.
In the second section, I showed some texts in the Gospels that have been attributed to some books of the Old Testament, yet they are written in other books.
In the third section, I showed some texts in the Gospels contain some names and numbers that inconsistent with what is written in the Old Testament.
In the fourth section, I studied the texts which have been attributed directly to the Old Testament, and compared them with the texts of the Old Testament, to find out the reality of those texts, and if they were fulfilled in Jesus and his time and his generation or not.
In the fifth section, I studied the texts, which were cited from the Old Testament during some dialogues and discussions and arguments that took place between the figures of the New Testament, whether Jesus or the Jews or even the devil.
In the sixth section, I studied the texts which were not attributed directly to the Old Testament, but were quoted from it, and compared them with the texts of the Old Testament to find out the reliability, credibility and reality of them, and if they were talking about Jesus or not.
And finally, a conclusion that summarizes the book's findings.
Nader Isa
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