#HARD WEST FOUR EVANGELISTS PLUS#

Hays subtly and skillfully exhibits the different aims, styles, and sensibilities of the four Evangelists, helping us to hear each voice for what it is but, in the end, helping us to hear the 'polyphonic' resonance of the fourfold gospel. through evoking texts from Israel's Scripture' (14).Įach chapter is illuminating on each of the three questions. And finally, (3) we will ask how each of the Evangelists begins to shape the story of the church. (2) We will listen carefully for the ways in which each Evangelist draws on scriptural stories and images to interpret the world-changing significant of Jesus. (1) We will be asking how each Evangelist carries forward and renarrates the story of Israel through intertextual references to Scripture. Hays's words will help most in understanding what the book seeks to do: 'We will pose three heuristic questions to each Gospel.

#HARD WEST FOUR EVANGELISTS PLUS#

And finally, (3) we will as Truly a masterwork, plus exceptionally useful!

Truly a masterwork, plus exceptionally useful! Hays's words will help most in understanding what the book seeks to do: 'We will pose three heuristic questions to each Gospel. The Evangelists, according to Hays, are training our scriptural senses, calling readers to be better scriptural people by being better scriptural poets.-J�rg Frey, Chair of New Testament Studies, University of Z�rich 'Novum Testamentum'. The Evangelists' use of scriptural echo beckons readers to believe the extraordinary: that Jesus was Israel's Messiah, that Jesus is Israel's God, and that contemporary believers are still on mission. Hays shows how the Evangelists summon readers to a conversion of their imagination. He shows how each Gospel artfully uses scriptural echoes to re-narrate Israel's story, to assert that Jesus is the embodiment of Israel's God, and to prod the church in its vocation to engage the pagan world. In particular, Hays carefully describes the Evangelists' practice of figural reading-an imaginative and retrospective move that creates narrative continuity and wholeness. In this long-awaited sequel to his Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul, Hays highlights the theological consequences of the Gospel writers' distinctive hermeneutical approaches and asks what it might mean for contemporary readers to attempt to read Scripture through the eyes of the Evangelists. Hays chronicles the dramatically different ways the four Gospel writers interpreted Israel's Scripture and reveals that their readings were as complementary as they were faithful. Yet modern historical criticism characteristically judges that the New Testament's christological readings of Israel's Scripture misrepresent the original sense of the texts this judgment forces fundamental questions to be asked: Why do the Gospel writers read the Scriptures in such surprising ways? Are their readings intelligible as coherent or persuasive interpretations of the Scriptures? Does Christian faith require the illegitimate theft of someone else's sacred texts?Įchoes of Scripture in the Gospels answers these questions. 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). 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 bel 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. 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.

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