By demonstrating how the narrative of the Bible maintains a linear theme, this book challenges traditional beliefs, born out of misreading biblical scenarios, in ways that are hard to discount.
The opening segment undoes 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 view those covenantal "Promises" as unconditional guarantees. However, it will be demonstrated here that each of those covenants has strings attached.
Subsequently, it is illustrated why "Messianism" 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 demonstrated 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 Messianism. Herein, it will be illustrated why traditional Messianism can never happen.
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, yet was born of a virgin; 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. Therefore, this book discerns whether the author of Matthew was correct to align himself with the idea that the Davidic line was relevant to "Messiahship."
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 demonstrates that there is an unnamed Messiah, in the narrative of the Hebrew Bible, who is not in the line Davidic line, but, instead, appears to be fully Divine.
Then, scholarly opinions that miss why biblical stories are coherent are invalidated, by demonstrating why those narratives maintain unity and consistency. Or, this book illustrates why characters in the Bible were referring to predecessors in biblical scenarios. Both approaches critique or support scholarly evidence to validate conclusions.
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, born out of misreading the biblical narrative, which lack consistency, will be deconstructed in order to establish new ideals that are more feasible. Notions that arise out of the misreading the biblical narrative will be tested in ways that may change the way people view claims made by the authors of the Bible regarding legendary men.