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To read the New Testament is to meet the Old Testament at every turn. But exactly how do Old Testament texts relate to their New Testament references and allusions? Moreover, what fruitful interpretive methods do New Testament texts demonstrate? Leading biblical scholars Walter Kaiser, Darrel Bock, and Peter Enns each present their answers to questions surrounding the use of the Old Testament in...

at either level, and the meaning of the two readings are interrelated, as my illustrations below will seek to show. We now turn our attention to specific types of usage.13 The use of the OT extends beyond fulfillment about Jesus. The first few categories deal with prophetic fulfillment; we then move to more illustrative and explanatory categories. . Some texts reflect directly prophetic fulfillments. In such cases, the human author and the divine author share the
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