A BACKGROUND AND APPLICATION COMMENTARY

JOHN

THROUGH OLD TESTAMENT EYES

Karen H. Jobes

ANDREW T. LE PEAU

SERIES EDITOR

John Through Old Testament Eyes: A Background and Application Commentary

© 2021 by Karen H. Jobes

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ISBN 978-0-8254-4508-8

Through Old Testament Eyes

New Testament Commentaries

Series Editor: Andrew T. Le Peau

For My Doktorvater,

Dr. Moisés Silva

CONTENTS

Series Preface

Introduction

Commentary

Acknowledgments

List of Tables

List of What the Structure Means

List of Through Old Testament Eyes

List of Going Deeper

Abbreviations

Select Bibliography

Scripture Index

SERIES PREFACE

The New Testament writers were Old Testament people. Their minds were populated with Old Testament stories and concepts. Their imaginative world was furnished with Old Testament images, motifs, metaphors, symbols, and literary patterns. When Jesus came and turned much of their conventional wisdom on its head, they largely had Old Testament tools to understand what was going on in order to explain Jesus to others and to themselves. So that’s what they used.

For many Christians the Old Testament has, unfortunately, become a closed book. It seems long, mysterious, and boring with a confusing history full of many strange, unpronounceable names. And then there are those sometimes bizarre prophecies populated with strange creatures. Yet my consistent experience in teaching the New Testament is that when I turn the attention of students to relevant Old Testament passages, the proverbial light bulbs go on. The room is filled with “aha”s. Formerly obscure New Testament passages ...