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4 - The Scriptural Matrix of the Gospels

from Part I - Approaching the Gospels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2021

By
Richard B. Hays  and
Christopher Blumhofer
Edited by
Stephen C. Barton  and
Todd Brewer
Stephen C. Barton
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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Summary

Places the four gospels in the scriptural environment of Israel’s story. Taking each gospel in turn, Hays and Blumhofer show that the scriptures constitute the gospels’ ‘generative milieu’. The stories about Jesus gain their full intelligibility within the context of the textual tradition and the larger scriptural story of God’s dealings with Israel.

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Old TestamentHebrew scripturesGospel of MarkGospel of MatthewGospel of LukeGospel of Johnechoes of scriptureprophecyfulfilment
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The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels , pp. 70 - 90
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Alkier, Stefan, ‘Intertextuality and the Semiotics of Biblical Texts’, in Hays, Richard B., Alkier, Stefan and Huizenga, Leroy A., eds., Reading the Bible Intertextually (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2009), 3–21Google Scholar
Bauckham, Richard, Jesus and the God of Israel (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008)Google Scholar
Beale, G. K., and Carson, D. A., eds., Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2007)Google Scholar
Boyarin, Daniel, The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ (New York: New Press, 2011)Google Scholar
Carson, D. A., and Williamson, H. G. M., eds., It Is Written: Scripture Citing Scripture; Essays in Honour of Barnabas Lindars, SSF (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988)Google Scholar
Hays, Richard B., Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2017)Google Scholar
Marcus, Joel, The Way of the Lord: Christological Exegesis of the Old Testament in the Gospel of Mark (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox,1992)Google Scholar
Menken, M. J. J., Matthew’s Bible: The Old Testament Text of the Evangelist, BETL 173 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2004)Google Scholar
Menken, M. J. J., Old Testament Quotations in the Fourth Gospel: Studies in Textual Form (Kampen: Pharos, 1996)Google Scholar
Tuckett, Christopher M., ed., The Scriptures in the Gospels, BETL 131 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1997)Google Scholar
Watts, Rikki E., Isaiah’s New Exodus and Mark, WUNT 2/88 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1997)Google Scholar

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