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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...

The first is typological-PROPHETIC fulfillment. In these texts, there is a short-term historical referent, and yet the promise’s initial fulfillment is such that an expectation remains that more of the pattern needs “filling up” to be completely fulfilled. The passage begs for and demands additional fulfillment (because God’s Word is true). In fact, such expectation usually already existed among Jewish readers of these texts. A nonchristological example is Isaiah 65–66, where the descriptions of
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