![]() ![]() It will surely be a landmark publication in the history of scholarship for its bold claim that all four canonical Gospels present Jesus as the embodiment of the God of Israel (a view for which I will also argue in volumes 2, 3 and 4 of my Jesus Monotheism). It is an important book, elegantly written and full of fresh insights into the literary character and theology of the Four Gospels. Richard Hays, the godfather of New Testament studies on all things intertextual (see his seminal Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul and his The Conversion of the Imagination ) has recently published an important book on the use of the Old Testament in the Gospels ( Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels ). It was an invited (“Keynote”) paper and, as I was asked to speak to the general topic of Intertextuality, the research and writing has helped me clarify my understanding of the Son of Man problem. ![]() On Monday of this week I gave a lecture at a Biblical Studies conference at the University of Birmingham entitled “Intertextuality and the Son of Man Problem”. Intertextuality, Richard Hays and the Son of Man Problem ![]()
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