In Reading Backwards Richard B.
Modernity\'s incredulity toward the Christian faith partly rests upon the characterization of early Christian preaching as a tendentious misReading of the Hebrew S.
The Gospels\' scriptural imagination discovered inside the long tradition of a resilient Jewish monotheism a novel and revolutionary Christology.
Hays maps the shocking ways the four Gospel writers interpreted Israel\'s Scripture to craft their literary witnesses to the Church\'s one Christ.
In Reading Backwards Richard B