rise to the salvation history schemas of the Twentieth Century.68 But there is a diachronic, narrative dimension to Jesus’ ‘fulfilling’ the law and prophets that typological arguments have not yet captured. The law and the prophets provide the true ‘shape’ of what it looks like to be Israel: they plot the past, present and future of the people of God. The narrative perspective allows us to see that Jesus did not simply come to embody principles or even fulfil prophetic predictions, but to take the