would still speak to the attentive Jewish reader at the time of Jesus. What Christians call the “history books” in the Old Testament (Joshua, Judges, and so forth) were generally known as “the prophets,” and thus when Jesus began with “Moses and all the prophets” in Luke 24:27, we should understand this as indicating that he was interpreting all of scripture, in whatever precise state it stood at that time. In describing Jesus as a prophet mighty in deed and word, Luke is also expecting his readers