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#155 Making sense of Old Testament violence

Ask NT Wright Anything

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The Quintessential Old Testament Commentary

I think the way people think of it, if, you know, Hebrews tells us that Jesus is the best perfect representation of God, this is God truly revered. Do the idea that it's through that image, God gives us of himself that we then read, yes, understands all of those other images. This is why Richard Hayes's short book on the Old Testament to the Gospels is called reading backwards. And now like the two on the road to Emmaus, we look back as these things were all and that includes all the times when they're getting it wrong.

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