The only scriptural way that I am aware of to make the claim that Jesus is a descendant of David is to dismiss the virgin birth as mythical. This is fair to do since the gods impregnating human women is a standard feature in ancient biographies.
Many times in Tanakh it is prophesied that the coming messiah will be a descendant of David. Flash forward to the New Testament which makes the claim that Jesus is the messiah. Thus, Jesus would have to be a descendant of David. However, Christianity would develop into a theology that makes claims that would contradict…
I recently posted an article about the feud between Dr. Michael Brown and Rabbi Tovia Singer. Today, this showed up in my feed on YouTube. I enter it into the evidence. The question is concerning Paul’s claim that Messiah would rise on “the third day according to the scriptures”. Does Tanak ever make that claim?…
