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Biblical Interpretation Then and Now examines the use of the Bible in the early church and relates apostolic and patristic interpretation to contemporary trends in hermeneutics. Dockery traces the developments in early Christian interpretation, noting both continuities and discontinuities. His study begins with Jesus, and observes the developments in interpretation to the time of the historic...

that Jesus viewed his mission as a fulfillment of the Scriptures and in a way that ran counter to the assumptions and expectations of his closest followers as well as his opponents.8 We can content ourselves with C. K. Barrett’s words: “The gospel story as a whole differs so markedly from current (i.e., first-century) interpretation of the Old Testament that it is impossible to believe that it originated simply in meditations of prophecy; it originated in the career of Jesus of Nazareth.”9 It is
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