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Tagged “Crucifixion”
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Psalm 22 and the Crucifixion: Did David Predict the Cross?
Psalm 22 is a lament whose sufferer is rescued, not raised. Its "pierced" line rests on a disputed word the gospels never quote, and no one read it as a prediction before the cross. The gospels told the passion in its words.
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Reading Backwards: How Crucifixion Created Christology
A crucified messiah was a contradiction in terms. How the cross sent Jesus's followers back into Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22, and why the christology they found there was read backward from the event rather than predicted before it.