Jesus’ Eschatology C. H. Dodd argues that it was Jesus’ “genuinely creative thinking” that brought together “very diverse [Old Testament] scriptures … so that they interpret one another in hitherto unsuspected ways,” resulting in turn in “an original, and far-reaching resolution of the tension” which existed between the several features of Old Testament eschatology (e.g., David’s victorious Priest–King, Isaiah’s Suffering Servant, Daniel’s Son of Man) and in “a fresh understanding of the mysterious