Cordoba, it's a nice story, and one that may contain some truth, but we are not told which prophecies from the Torah are supposed to have convinced this particular rabbi. The fact that the rest of the Jewish community were unconvinced by the reasoning suggests that his interpretation of the prophecies was not widely accepted. I can only assume that this is another attempt to twist Deuteronomy 18:18.
It's important to understand that the Tanakh, the Old Testament, contains prophecies which look forward to the Messiah and the Kingdom of God. The Messiah represents the culmination of all that God plans for mankind. Through HIM, and in him, there is salvation and an everlasting kingdom.
If Deuteronomy 18:18 did refer to Muhammad, we would expect to find the fulfilment of the prophecy in the New Testament. But nowhere is there any mention of Muhammad as the fulfilment of Old Testament prophecies. Don't forget, the New Testament provides a prophecy that takes us to the 'new heaven and new earth'. It does not miss out any period of history, so it cannot be argued that the period of Muhammad is missing. The 'times of the Gentiles' is mentioned as the period when Jerusalem is not under Jewish rule. (Luke 21:24).
Prophet is a person who gives accurate information of the past, present and future by receiving Word of Revelation from the One-True-God.
Since Torah due to being corrupted at hands of the narrators/scribes/clergy it is now a mix.
It does not provide reliable information even about Exodus so its prophetic characteristic about the future is also changed.
Israeli Archaeologists at Tel Aviv have excavated the cities and locations mentioned in the Torah and have confirmed that as per the narrations of the Torah, no Exodus took place.
QuoteTel Aviv University archaeologist Ze'ev Herzog wrote in the Haaretz newspaper:
This is what archaeologists have learned from their excavations in the Land of Israel: the Israelites were never in Egypt, did not wander in the desert, did not conquer the land in a military campaign and did not pass it on to the 12 tribes of Israel. Perhaps even harder to swallow is that the united monarchy of David and Solomon, which is described by the Bible as a regional power, was at most a small tribal kingdom.
And it will come as an unpleasant shock to many that the God of Israel, YHWH, had a female consort and that the early Israelite religion adopted monotheism only in the waning period of the monarchy and not at Mount Sinai.[31][32]
Professor Finkelstein, who is known as "the father of biblical archaeology", told the Jerusalem Post that Jewish archaeologists have found no historical or archaeological evidence to back the biblical narrative on the Exodus, the Jews' wandering in Sinai or Joshua's conquest of Canaan.
On the alleged Temple of Solomon, Finkelstein said that there is no archaeological evidence to prove it really existed.[33] Professor Yoni Mizrahi, an independent archaeologist who has worked with the International Atomic Energy Agency, agreed with Israel Finkelstein.[33]
Regarding the Exodus of Israelites from Egypt, Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass said:
“Really, it’s a myth,”... “This is my career as an archaeologist. I should tell them the truth. If the people are upset, that is not my problem.”[34]
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So before analyzing the prophecies of future mentioned in Torah; it has to be purified from these corruptions/changes for its narratives for future made by the narrators/scribes/clergy.
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