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By demonstrating how the narrative of the Bible keeps a coherent theme, this book challenges traditional beliefs in ways that are hard to discount. The opening portion presents new arguments that undo scholarly opinions that do not recognize the thread which runs through the Abram covenant, the Abrahamic covenant, the Mosaic covenant, and the Davidic covenant. Biblical scholars see those covenantal Promises as unconditional guarantees. However, it will be established here why each of those covenants has strings attached. Establishing that concept creates the context in which to address some of the remaining hopes, for the house of Israel and the house of Judah, according to the author of Jeremiah. Subsequently, an original case is made that demonstrates why Messiahship in the narrative of the Hebrew Bible is being seen in the wrong context. First, it is pointed out that the idea of a messiah probably did not occur to the prophets. Then, it is confirmed that the authors of the Hebrew Bible never asserted that any messianic figure, in their narratives, is a Davidic king. A future Davidic king would satisfy traditional Messiahship. Herein, it will be illustrated why a traditional Messiah can never materialize. Conveniently, the author of Matthew alleged that Jesus, a person who met his Messianic expectations, was in the patriarchal lineage of David and had a Divine lineage at the same time. Those claims seem contradictory and unfeasible, from a nuts and bolts standpoint. Moreover, virgin births real, or not, exclude persons from that scenario from being The Messiah according to Jewish tradition, because he would have no patriarchal blood ties to the line of David. As the story goes, Jesus was born of a virgin. Therefore, a new explanation is offered that points out why Matthew's version of the Jesus story seems to have hurt, not helped, Jesus' case for satisfying the traditional requirement for being the The Messiah being in the patriarchal lineage of David. Since there is no way of definitively proving that anyone is The Messiah, from an academic standpoint, it would still seem that such a figure only exists within the realm of theory. Therefore, this book presents an original case to illustrate that there is an unnamed Messiah, in the narrative of the Hebrew Bible, who is not in the Davidic line. Instead, he appears to be fully Divine. However, it must be emphasized that this is not an attempt to demonstrate that any storyline in biblical canon was real; the main point here is to serve a rather opposite purpose. Conformist beliefs that lack consistency will be deconstructed in order to establish new ideals that are more feasible. Conventional doctrines, based on misreading the biblical narrative, are about to be tested in ways that will reshape Judeo-Christian thought.

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