Only meeting the exact criteria of the Torah and Prophets as they themselves describe them makes one the messiah.
I hope the EXACT requirments did not get messed up over the years with all of the re-telling and not writing down!
I'm sure you do. However, you seem to trust the Rabbis with preserving the vowels and punctuation of the Hebrew Bible (the Written Bible is nothing but a string of consonants). In fact, every Bible translation in the world, not matter how chr*stian, assumes the vowels and punctuation (which were handed down orally) are correct. If the Oral Tradition can be trusted with preserving the vowels and punctuation of the Bible, it can be trusted with its interpretation as well.
I don't think that necessarily follows, ZC. Maybe you can explain why you think it does.