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![]() ![]() ![]() If you leave out the front and back matter, the body of this book (chapters 1-6) is just over 100 pages. The final chapter offers summary thoughts on retrospective readings and the challenge and benefit of Gospel-shaped hermeneutics. There then follows a short chapter on each Gospel writer’s strategy of doing this. He then offers an introductory chapter on figural reading, which as you might have figured, is the backwards reading the title refers to. In his preface, Hays mentions several forerunners to the type of work he is doing (Dodd, Wright, Hurtado, Bauckham, to name a few). It is a preview of a Gospel focused sequel he is working on toEchoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul. The book itself is derived from a series of lectures Hays delivered at Cambridge in 20. Sometimes I get bored with regular reading so the opportunity to learn a new skill intrigued me. I hadn’t read any of Hays’ works, but I see his name frequently and N. Originally published by Baylor University Press, there is now a paperback edition courtesy of SPCK and they graciously sent me a copy. You might have seen Richard Hays’ Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness with a different cover. We knew-and, particularly, on the early church’s remarkable belief in Jesus as the embodiment of Israel’s God.’ - N. ‘Hays opens new and striking vistas on texts we thought. ![]()
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