@alex @Gargron @charliebrownau @GoodPerson @EmmaFaber >starting with the NT
>don't you think Mary just had sex?
Whether you believe it or not is a choice you have to make. "I'm making the rational choice" is a cope for someone who doesn't want to grapple with the decision.
Anyway
Read Genesis 1-4 first and look up the meanings of the names and places. There are a lot of double and triple meanings in there that relate to the NT and the NT is full of callbacks to the OT.
A surface-level reading of the text won't mean anything to you because 200 years of post-enlightenment thought have taught you that all meaning is just a coincidence so youll have to go deeper in the text to find what you're looking for.