Download or read book The Prophetic Reading of the Psalms in the Synoptic Gospels, in the Context of Second Temple Judaism written by Johnson Samuel Subramanian and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book of Psalms, which contains prayers and songs, is one of the most frequently cited books in the New Testament The Synoptic evangelists seem to read the Psalms not primarily as prayers but as prophecies of the future. They discovered in its language prophecies concerning the life and ministry of Jesus and attempted to show how Jesus' life was prefigured in the Psalms. The present study is undertaken with a view to examine a topic within the broad subject of the use of the OT in the NT, that of the prophetic reading of the Psalms in the Synoptic gospels, in the context of Second Temple Judaism.