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Three Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

“fulfill” Hosea 11:1 and its description of Israel’s exodus from Egypt (Matt 2:15). In Romans 9:25–26, Paul can point to the conversion of the Gentiles to faith in Jesus as the fulfillment of the promises made in Hosea 1:10 and 2:23 concerning the Northern Kingdom’s return to a covenantal relationship with God after the exile to Assyria. So also does a typological perspective permit John the Baptist in John 1:23 to identify himself as the forerunner announcing the fulfillment of Isaiah’s vision of
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