Richard Hays gave a series of lectures at the 2011 Winter Pastor’s School of Baylor University on the subject “Reading Scripture Alongside the Gospel Writers”. The audio and video have been made available online. I have provided the link to either option for all of the lectures as well as the link to the website where they are posted.
02/10/2011: “Can the Gospels Teach Us How to Read the Old Testament?”
02/11/2011: “Torah Reconfigured: Reading Scripture with Matthew”
02/11/2011: “Turning the World Upside Down: Reading Scripture with Luke”
02/11/2011: “The Temple of His Body: Reading Scripture with John”
02/12/2011: “Opening Our Minds to Understand the Scriptures”
Find more from past Winter Pastor’s Meetings here.
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February 21, 2011 at 4:23 pm
Fantastic resources Brian.
I haven’t read or heard of Richard Hayes before. I started to watch his talk on Luke and will go back to it.
I have come to appreciate Dr. Walter Brueggemann all the more from watching him in action. Whenever I go back and read some of his work; I can’t help but read it and hearing his drawl / voice.
February 21, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Awesome. Just what I need to listen too right now.
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February 21, 2011 at 4:44 pm
@Craig: I really enjoy Hays. He has done some great work on Paul and the OT in the NT. I think these lectures may be a preview of what is to come as far as his writing is concerned.
@Mark: Glad to see it will be useful!
February 21, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Nice. I did hear that he was doing something along these lines in the Gospels as he did for Paul. Though with his administrative duties as our dean, I don’t know where he has the time to churn out another ground-shifting (probably?) book.
February 21, 2011 at 6:35 pm
@Mike: He is gifted, if anyone can do it he can. Hopefully he laid enough ground work before taking his new position. It seems like he has already thought on the matter.
February 22, 2011 at 9:27 am
Thanks, bro.
February 22, 2011 at 9:28 am
@T.C.: Anytime!
February 23, 2011 at 10:02 am
By the way, let me note, I am listening to the first lecture now, and it is awesome.
February 23, 2011 at 4:13 pm
Thanks! I’m taking a Pentateuch class right now which is great, except I’ve been wondering if my professors rules for interpretation of the Pent. (and the entire OT) would exclude or make illegitimate the NT hermeneutics. So, this is exactly what I needed.
February 23, 2011 at 5:25 pm
@Ryan: It is likely that even a more conservative professor who agrees that we should read Scripture Christologically will still demand historical-grammatical readings in class. I think many professors worry that if they open the door to that hermeneutic it will result in utter subjectivity and “spiritualized” readings diminishing their respectability. There is some weight to this concern, but I don’t see it as having to be either-or. We should be able to read historical-grammatical to the extent that such an approach will take us and then still read Christologically knowing it seems to be the approach Christ commended to find him (e.g. Lk. 24).
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March 7, 2011 at 2:14 pm
So grateful for these resources, Brian. Hays’ work in helping us see how NT writers’ minds were filled with the OT as they wrote is so helpful to understanding the NT. I wish I’d been exposed to Hays many years ago. I hope younger minds will take note… and benefit accordingly.