Hays, Richard B.
Summary
This scholarly work investigates how the four canonical Gospels interpret and recontextualize Israel's Scriptures to articulate their theological visions of Jesus. It emphasizes the Evangelists' use of "figural interpretation," a retrospective reading strategy that discerns patterns and correspondences between events or persons in the Hebrew Bible and the life of Jesus. This approach does not rely on the original authors' intent but instead views the connections as part of a larger narrative coherence.
Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels
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- Author
- Hays, Richard B.
- Publisher
- Baylor University Press
- Year
- 2017
- Pages
- p. 137
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