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Messianic Exegesis: Christological Interpretation of the Old Testament in Early Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

Professor Juel defends a simple thesis: “The beginnings of Christian reflection can be traced to interpretation of Israel’s Scriptures, and the major focus of that scriptural interpretation was Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah.” He therefore proceeds to demonstrate how certain Old Testament texts came to be applied to Jesus as Christ. He argues that the interpretative application of such...

or the Righteous Sufferer. The proposal that the confession of Jesus as Messiah is primary is something of a novelty. The thesis is not my own. I learned it from my teacher Nils Alstrup Dahl, who has offered both a highly detailed and a comprehensive account of christological origins in his various essays and still-unpublished lectures on NT Christology. His subtle—and largely neglected—argument only improves with age. The confession of Jesus as Messiah, he argues, can be derived neither from Jesus’
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