are poems, often lyrics to songs, if you will. While one can argue that the whole OT was viewed as in one sense prophetic and forward-looking in character, this doesn’t help us much when it comes to explaining why these two books in particular, Isaiah and the Psalms, were singled out so often to explain the Christ event and its aftermath. Nor is it enough to suggest that the earliest Christians were simply following the example of Jesus himself, since in fact Jesus seems to have mainly used other