Frans Hansen book
THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW VS. THE HEBREW BIBLE
A forensic test of “fulfilled prophecy” claims: quotations, context, translation choices, and category shifts.
How to use this book
The question is not whether Christians can preach symbolic connections. They can. The harder question is whether the Hebrew Bible itself authorizes those conclusions before later theology supplies the decoder key.
A resemblance is not a prophecy. A sermon is not a covenant. A later interpretation is not automatically the original meaning of an earlier text.
- 1Torah must remain Torah.
- 2Sinai outranks later private claims.
- 3Public covenant requires public meaning.
- 4Israel, Judah, and Zion cannot be quietly reassigned.
- 5Prophetic fulfillment must be observable, not rescued by fog.
- 6Observable fulfillment must be public, historical, and testable.
- 7The claimant must meet the messianic standard before the standard is redefined.
Where to go next
Use this book as part of a reading path. Start with the short companion if you need the method quickly, move to Isaiah 53 for a focused prooftext audit, use 666 Shadows when typology or hidden “Jesus in Tanakh” claims appear, and use the Rabbis volume when the argument turns to Metatron, the Angel of the Lord, the Son of Man, or pre-incarnation claims.