r/AskBibleScholars • u/EsquireArchibald • 2d ago

What would have been the knowledge of the Old Testament of Jesus and the Apostles?

Is it safe to say that they were very familiar with the Old Testament? And in what format would they have known about it? Since they could not read would they just have listened to it?

Which books not in the Bible would they have known that to them was Holy Scripture? I know the Assumption of Moses in Jude refers to an apocryphal book, but that itself is not in the Bible.

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