I was delighted to attend the review session of Richard Hays’ new little book Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness (Baylor, 2014) at SBL. But I was sad that I had not yet gotten a hold of the book – until yesterday when a nice little package arrived. I was eager to dive right in, so I worked through the preface yesterday. Here are some of my notes.
More to come – this is a kind of “progress report” (~150pp) and a deposit on Hays’ study of the Evangelists’ interpretation of Scripture, and Hays is slowly making headway on a much larger, more comprehensive volume.
“Use”? Hays mentions in the preface that his friend Markus Bockmuehl cautioned him against using the language of “use” when it comes to the Evangelists and Scripture. Did they use the OT? Bockmuehl states:
“It seems both a matter of fact and part…
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