The New Testament's Use of Jewish Scriptures

Description

The New Testament is full of hundreds of quotations of the Old Testament—the Bible of the first followers of Jesus—which profoundly influenced their thinking and behaviour. But the forms of the quoted texts and the manner in which they have been interpreted by the biblical writers vary in surprising ways. How can we understand some of the puzzles that we discover in examining the quotations?

This booklet, by an established expert in the field, offers an introduction to the New Testament’s use of the Jewish Scriptures. Drawing on a number of specific examples from the gospels and epistles it reveals the variety of written sources that New Testament writers chose and how their choices reflect the different interpretative methods available to them.