Reading Backwards Quotes

“The more deeply we probe the Jewish and OT roots of the Gospel narratives, the more clearly we see that each of the four Evangelists, in their diverse portrayals, identifies Jesus as the embodiment of the God of Israel.”
― Richard B. Hays, Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness

“The Evangelists, who are themselves storytellers, are much more interested in the OT as story than as prediction or as law.”
― Richard B. Hays, Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness

“ E. P. Sanders has forcefully argued the case that Jesus’ demonstration in the Temple was a prophetic action symbolizing its destruction. Oddly, however, he dismisses the Jeremiah allusion in 11:17 as secondary and inauthentic. Indeed, he suggests that the Evangelists have used the quotation about the “den of robbers” to cover up the embarrassing historical fact of Jesus’ threat of destruction and to “make it appear that Jesus was quite reasonably protesting against dishonesty”
― Richard B. Hays, Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness

“If we learn from the Gospel of Luke how to read the OT, we will see that the whole story of Israel builds to a narrative climax in the story of Jesus. In”
― Richard B Hays, Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness

“with insight and wisdom. θεοῦ γάρ ἐσμεν συνεργοί 1 Cor 3:9”
― Richard B Hays, Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness