Hays, Richard B.

Echoes of Scripture in The Gospels Richard B. Hays - U.S.A. Baylor University Press 2016 - 504tr. hardcover, illustrations 24 cm

The claim that the events of Jesus life, death, and resurrection took place according to the Scriptures stands at the heart of the New Testament's message. All four canonical Gospels declare that the Torah and the Prophets and the Psalms mysteriously prefigure Jesus. The author of the Fourth Gospel states this claim succinctly: in his narrative, Jesus declares, ""If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me"" (John 5:46). Yet modern historical criticism characteristically judges that the New Testament's christological readings of Israel's Scripture misrepresent the original sense of the texts

9781481304917


Theology -- Evangelical
Bible -- Gospels -- Criticism, interpretation, etc

226.066 / H425-R51