Richard Hays
Reading Backwards
- ISBN 13:
- 9780281074082
- author:
- Richard Hays
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- SPCK Publishing
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2015
- Pages:
- 180
- Dimensions:
- 14 x 1 x 21.6 cm
- Genre:
- Religion & Spirituality, Bible, Bible Studies
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 2 working days
Description
Richard B. Hays explores how the four Gospel writers used the Hebrew Scriptures to craft their accounts of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. The Gospels' scriptural imagination reveals a novel and revolutionary Christology, one that is rooted in a resilient Jewish monotheism.
Modern criticism often views the Gospels as a misreading of the Bible, twisting the inherited Hebrew Scriptures to fit their message about a divine Savior. However, Hays demonstrates that the claim that Jesus' events took place "according to the Scriptures" was at the heart of the New Testament's earliest message. The canonical Gospels declare that the Torah, Prophets, and Psalms mysteriously prefigure Jesus, with the author of the Fourth Gospel stating that "if you believed Moses, you would believe me" (John 5:46).
By tracing the reading strategies employed by the Gospel writers, Hays reveals how the Old Testament figuratively discloses the paradoxical truth about Jesus' identity. Attention to Jewish and Old Testament roots of the Gospel narratives reveals that each of the four Evangelists identifies Jesus as the embodiment of the God of Israel.
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