Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels by Richard B. Hays

Taken together, Hays’s two major monographs on Paul (see below) and his collection of essays, The Conversion of the Imagination: Paul as Interpreter of Israel’s Scripture (Eerdmans, 2005), make a compelling argument that “Paul call his readers and hearers to a conversion of the imagination.” That is, the apostle to the Gentiles urges his churches “to understand their identity anew in light of the gospel of Jesus Christ – a gospel message comprehensible only in relation to the larger narrative of God’s dealing with Israel” ( Conversion, 5). Through field-defining monographs and thought-provoking essays, Richard has apprenticed a generation of exegetes in the art of reading Scripture, sensitizing their ears to intertextual echoes, focusing their vision through the interpretive lenses of community, cross, and new creation, and directing their attention to the narrative of God’s righteousness displayed through the faith of Jesus Christ that runs like a golden thread through the Christian Bible. Perhaps no modern biblical scholar has argued more eloquently or more compellingly than Richard Hays that those who would read Holy Scripture rightly must be prepared to engage in a thrilling, unpredictable, and even perilous endeavor…. Hays, George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament and Dean of Duke Divinity School, with these words: David M.Several years ago, I introduced a Festschrift in honor of Richard B.

Written in a lively, semipopular style, this important study succeeds in showing that Paul’s scriptural quotations and allusions are often more ’polyphonic’ and rhetorically meaningful than traditional exegesis has allowed. Dunn, forthcoming in Literature and Theology A fresh interpretation of Paul’s references to the Jewish Scriptures. A major contribution both to Pauline studies and to our understanding of earliest Christian theology as a living dialogue with the scriptures of Israel. challenges not a few traditional or highly regarded readings. Hans Hübner, Theologische Literaturzeitung A powerful reading. A new beginning for the question concerning the reception of the Old Testament in the New. Stockenhausen, Journal of Biblical Literature Hays has without doubt posed the right question at the right time within the horizon of a particularly important problematic. It is sophisticated, in both a literary and theological sense, and written with considerable wit and confidence. Hays’s study will be a work to use and to reckon with for every Pauline scholar and for every student of Paul’s use of Old Testament traditions. Logos Research Subscription for SchoolsĪ major work on hermeneutics.

Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels by Richard B. Hays