“I find myself aware that in reading the Hebrew
scriptures I am handling something that gives me a closer common link with Jesus
than any archaeological artifact could do. For these are the words he
read. These were the stories he
knew. These were the songs he
sang. These were the depths of
wisdom and revelation and prophecy that shaped his whole view of ‘life, the
universe and everything’. This is
where he found his insights into the mind of his Father God. Above all, this is where the shape of
his own identity and the goal of his own mission. In short, the deeper you go into understanding the Old Testament, the closer you come to
the heart of Jesus.”[1]
