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Tagged “Early Christian interpretation”
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How the New Testament Writers Read the Old Testament
The New Testament writers did say the prophets spoke of Jesus. But they read those texts by pesher, midrash and typology, finding correspondences backward from Jesus, and none of those methods yields a prediction.
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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.