Psalm 8 and Its Christological Re-Interpretations in the New Testament Context: An Inter-Contextual Study in Biblical Hermeneutics (European University Studies. Series XXIII, Theology,)

The Christian interpretation of the Scriptures has from the very beginning inherited approaches and methods of interpretation from Judaism and Greco-Roman literary world. The thesis begins with an hypothesis of re-interpretation which was first proposed by G. von Rad, examined and applied by professor P. Grech to study the eschatologization process of the prophetic texts in the OT writings. This study seeks to apply the same hermeneutical principles taking Ps. 8 as a study case. The citations of the Psalm in the NT provide new messianical contexts of the Psalm in its eschatological process of re-interpretation.