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Did Moses write about Jesus? Jesus himself made this bold claim (recorded in John 5:46). Yet while most readers of the Bible today recognize a few Messianic prophecies in the Pentateuch, they don’t often see them as part of its central message. In The Messianic Vision of the Pentateuch, Kevin Chen challenges the common view of the Pentateuch as focused primarily on the Mosaic Law, arguing instead...

midst … will raise up” (מִקִּרְבְּךָ … יָקִים). Once it is clear in the context of Deuteronomy 13:1–5 that the former is an impostor (Deut 13:3), the false prophet is always referenced with an article: “that prophet” (הַנָּבִיא הַהוּא); “that dreamer of the dream” (חוֹלֵם הַחֲלֹום הַהוּא). In Deuteronomy 18:20, 22, “the prophet”/“that prophet” is directly described as an impostor and is always referenced with an article. Indeed, there is nothing inherently illogical about predicting the coming of
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