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Hurtado on Early Church Exegesis

The third approach to finding (and demonstrating) Jesus in the Old Testament is just as bold, and indeed, may well appear still more bizarre to many moderns. The focus here is on a number of Old Testament passages that narrate manifestations of God (the technical term for such a scene is “theophany”). In this approach these events are presented as manifestations of the “preincarnate” Son of God.