Reading Backwards

Richard B. Hays is Dean and Professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School. His previous publications include Reading the Bible Intertextually (2009), The Moral Vison of the New Testament (1997), First Corinthians (Interpretation Bible Commentaries, 1997) and Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul (1993).

· ‘Hays opens new and striking vistas on texts we thoughtwe knew—and, particularly, on the early church’s remarkable belief in Jesus as the embodiment of Israel’s God.’