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008			140620s2014 txu b 001 0 eng
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020			_a9781481302326 _q(hardback : _qalk. paper)
020			_z1481302329 _q(hardback : _qalk. paper)
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035			_a(OCoLC)871062806
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050	0	0	_aBS2555.52 _b.H39 2014
082	0	0	_a226/.06 _223
100	1		_aHays, Richard B.
245	1	0	_aReading backwards : _bfigural Christology and the fourfold gospel witness / _cRichard B. Hays.
300			_axxii, 155 pages ; _c23 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 133-141) and index.
505	0		_aThe manger in which Christ lies? : figural readings of Israel's scriptures -- Figuring the mystery: reading scripture with mark -- Torah transfigured: reading scripture with Matthew -- The one who redeems Israel: reading scripture with Luke -- The temple of His body: reading scripture with John -- Retrospective reading: the challenges of gospel-shaped hermeneutics.
520			_aIn Reading Backwards Richard B. Hays maps the shocking ways the four Gospel writers interpreted Israel's Scripture to craft their literary witnesses to the Church's one Christ. The Gospels' scriptural imagination discovered inside the long tradition of a resilient Jewish monotheism a novel and revolutionary Christology. Modernity's incredulity toward the Christian faith partly rests upon the characterization of early Christian preaching as a tendentious misreading of the Hebrew Scriptures. Christianity, modernity claims, twisted the Bible they inherited to fit its message about a mythological divine Savior. The Gospels, for many modern critics, are thus more about Christian doctrine in the second and third century than they are about Jesus in the first. Such Christian "misreadings" are not late or politically motivated developments within Christian thought.
520			_aAs Hays demonstrates, the claim that the events of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection took place "according to the Scriptures" stands at the very heart of the New Testament's earliest message. All four canonical Gospels declare that the Torah and the Prophets and the Psalms mysteriously prefigure Jesus. The author of the Fourth Gospel puts the claim succinctly: "If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me" (John 5:46). Hays thus traces the reading strategies the Gospel writers employ to "read backwards" and to discover how the Old Testament figuratively discloses the astonishing paradoxical truth about Jesus' identity. Attention to Jewish and Old Testament roots of the Gospel narratives reveals that each of the four Evangelists, in their diverse portrayals, identify Jesus as the embodiment of the God of Israel. Hays also explores the hermeneutical challenges posed by attempting to follow the Evangelists as readers of Israel's Scripture --
520			_acan the Evangelists teach us to read backwards along with them and to discern the same mystery they discovered in Israel's story? In Reading Backwards Hays demonstrates that it was Israel's Scripture itself that taught the Gospel writers how to understand Jesus as the embodied presence of God, that this conversion of imagination occurred early in the development of Christian theology, and that the Gospel writers' revisionary figural readings of their Bible stand at the very center of Christianity.
630	0	0	_aBible. _pGospels _xCriticism, interpretation, etc.
630	0	0	_aBible. _pGospels _xRelation to the Old Testament.
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