“God of the living and not the dead” (Matthew 22:32  ) : A Recent Book by Philippe Lefebvre

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The recognition of the Risen Jesus on the road to Emmaus is explicitly associated with the understanding of the scriptures. Jesus reveals himself in the reexamination of “all the scriptures.” Philippe Lefebvre chooses to check this proposition by way of a rereading of the books of Samuel. He shows how the turbulent history of the beginnings of the royalty models messianic hope and begins to fix the Messiah’s traits, which will find their fulfillment in Jesus. Without ignoring the historical and critical approach, the author endeavors to identify the production of meaning in the breadth of the text. The primary roles of the story are questioned, yet so are the secondary, particularly feminine, ones. The basic option is that God reveals himself in a privileged manner in the gestures of ordinary life, in the flesh, with its universal dimension. So the messianic hope and fulfillment of the scriptures acquire a consistency that is not only historical, but also anthropological.