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From what I have read about it...

If you are asking me if I have solid *Proof* for this, not I don’t, but your claims are not verified by Proof as well..

We are lead by *Faith* not *Proof*

And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

Christ’s, and the accomplishment of a prophecy in Isaiah 26:19.(But your dead will live, LORD;
their bodies will rise—
let those who dwell in the dust
wake up and shout for joy—
your dew is like the dew of the morning;
the earth will give birth to her dead.

And they rose in the same bodies in which they before lived, otherwise they could not be called their bodies, or known by those to whom they appeared: but who they were is not to be known; some have thought them to be the ancient patriarchs, as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob.

In the Septuagint on Job 42:17, Job is said to be one of them, and a tradition is there recorded..

And so Job died, an old man and full of years.

“it is written, that he rose with whom the Lord rose.

But it should seem rather, that they were some later saints, such as Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, John the Baptist himself, good old Simeon, Joseph the husband of Mary, and others, well known to persons now alive. Some think they were such, as had been martyrs in the cause of religion; and so the Persic version renders the words, “and the bodies of many saints who suffered martyrdom, rose out of the graves”.

There is *Evidence* that “Flavius Josephus* knew of Christ...

The following excerpt contains the testimony of Josephus about Jesus Christ in paragraph 3. This famous paragraph is known as the “Testimonium Flavianum” in Latin, or “The Testimony of Flavius.” This reprint is from “The New Complete Works of Josephus”, translated by William Whiston, with commentary by Paul L. Maier. Copyright 1999 by Kregel Publications. Pages 590-591. I have reproduced the William Whiston translation of “Jewish Antiquities” here, including his footnotes.

3. (63) Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure.

He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ. (64) And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men among us, had condemned him to the cross [2], those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day [3], as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named for him, are not extinct at this day.

http://www.theistic-evolution.com/josephus.html