![]() ![]() ![]() A sizable chunk of the volume is taken up by endnotes (75 pages), all grouped in one section at the back of the book. The overall structure of the book shows a penchant for the Synoptics, with Mark (89 pages), Matthew (86 pages) and Luke (90 pages) receiving on average significantly more space than John (65 pages). Given the topic addressed, the author naturally uses a fourfold division, allotting a section for each of the four Gospels and reading them in chronological, rather than canonical order. The prolegomena to the new inquiry came in the form of a little book entitled Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness (2014), a distilled version of the much larger manuscript that eventually, in very dire circumstances for its author (a grueling battle with pancreatic cancer), was published as Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels. Review by Emanuel Conțac, Pentecostal Theological Institute of Bucharest.Īfter writing two seminal books on the complex issue of Old Testament interpretation in the Pauline corpus ( Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul, 1989 The Conversion of Imagination, 2005), Richard Hays has moved into a different field, applying to the Gospels the ample expertise gained during his arduous engagement with Paul’s thought and his reading of the Hebrew Scriptures. ![]()
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