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04218aam a2200361 i 4500 001 DBD77A9E5B9611EFABE9BE7952ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240816010336 008 150515r20152014enk 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0281074089 020 $a 9780281074082 035 $a (OCoLC)910178166 040 $a NLE $b eng $c NLE $d CUD $d OCLCO $d HNW $d CCD $d OCLCA $d OCLCF $d OCLCA $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d AUD $d YDXCP $d GBVCP $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCL $d OCLCQ $d AUMCD $d SILO 050 00 $a BS2555.52 $b .H39 2015 082 04 $a 226.06 $2 23 100 1 $a Hays, Richard B. 245 10 $a Reading backwards : $b figural Christology and the fourfold gospel witness / $c by Richard B. Hays. 264 1 $a London : $b Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, $c 2015. 300 $a xxii, 155 pages ; $c 22 cm 500 $a Originally published: Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, 2014. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-141) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction. "The manger in which Christ lies" : figural readings of Israel's scriptures -- The fourfold witness. Figuring the mystery : reading scripture with Mark ; Torah transfigured : reading scripture with Matthew ; The one who redeems Israel : reading scripture with Luke ; The temple transfigured : reading scripture with John -- Conclusion. Retrospective reading : the challenges of gospel-shaped hermeneutics. 520 $a In 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. As 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 thereading 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 -- can 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 00 $a Bible. $p Gospels $x Criticism, interpretation, etc. 630 00 $a Bible. $p Gospels $x Relation to the Old Testament. 630 06 $a Bible. $p EÌvangiles $x Critique, interpreÌtation, etc. 630 07 $a Bible. $p Gospels $2 fast 650 7 $a IntertextualitaÌt $2 gnd 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast 941 $a 1 952 $l OUAX845 $d 20240816050247.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DBD77A9E5B9611EFABE9BE7952ECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOTInitiate Another SILO Locator Search