Scripture, Jewish exegetes worked within the confines of a strictly “inner-biblical” type of exegesis—or, at least, that is what they proclaimed they were doing.47 New Testament writers, however, used Scripture principally for a different purpose. Comparable in many respects to the hermeneutics of the Dead Sea covenanters and some of the other Jewish apocalyptic writers of the period, the New Testament writers used biblical materials, in the main, to highlight the theme of fulfillment. Two distinctive