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. 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 believed
Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me" (John 5:46).
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
readthe 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? Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels
answers these questions. Richard B. Hays chronicles the
dramatically different ways the four Gospel writers interpreted
Israel's Scripture and reveals that their readings were as
complementary as they werefaithful. In this long-awaited sequel to
his Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul , Hayshighlights 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. In particular, Hays carefully describes the
Evangelists'practice of figural reading aan imaginative and
retrospective move that creates narrative continuity and wholeness.
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. Hays shows how the Evangelists summon readers to a
conversion of their imagination. 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. The Evangelists, according to Hays,
are training our scriptural senses, calling readers to be better
scriptural people by being better scriptural poets.
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