How Could Mary Not Have Known? An Angel, a Virgin, and Theatre Stage Full of Old Testament Personalities

Luke’s Gospel is a like theatre stage, full of action, with a screen behind it, on which flashes image after image from the Old Testament. Our task is to catch the alignment between the OT pictures and the main action onstage. As Chad Bird guides us through this well-known account, we will see just how necessary it is to view Luke 1:26ff through Hebrew eyes.