Richard Hays on the poetic sensibility of the Gospels If we learn from them [the NT’s four evangelists] how to read, we will approach the reading of Scripture with a heightened awareness of story, metaphor, prefiguration, allusion, echo, reversal, and irony. To read Scripture well, we must bid farewell to plodding literalism and rationalism in […]

Richard Hays on Markan Christology For Mark, the singular mystery disclosed in and through the narrative is nothing other than the identity of Jesus himself, the Crucified Messiah who is also paradoxically the embodiment of the God of Israel. And yet to state this claim bluntly in so many words, as I have just done, […]