Most of the books of the New Testament, as well as the Palestinian Targums have the authors from the same religious environment. They have referred to the common tradition mostly by the similar exegesis of the Scripture (OT). In some measure they have known the other theological and doctrinal concepts, and were sharing or arguing with them. This is also visible in the further edition and reedition of their texts. Presented in this article comparative reading of some texts from the rabbinic

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... ms and the NT has shown clear examples of their correlation. Their authors have used not only common tradition of messianic interpretation of the Scripture, but sometimes present also quite a disguised polemic, which especially in the later targums turned, according to some researchers, almost into an "anti-Christian" apology.