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BI190 The Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament: Methodology and Practice is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this course, Dr. Jeannine Brown shows how we can better understand what the New Testament writers were communicating, by looking at how they referenced the Old Testament. Dr. Brown begins by explaining why New Testament writers referenced the Old Testament, and the four ways in which they did so. She then walks through references in Matthew, John, Philippians, and 1 Peter. See how Jesus is...

A second category Longenecker raises is the category of Jewish midrash. Midrash is the interpretive exposition on the biblical text to—as Longenecker puts it—“contemporize the revelation of God for the people of God.” This exposition is kind of like a sermon. We might think of it as this, kind of, expositing on the OT text in a new context. One example we might draw from is John 1 where John really draws from some key Jewish concepts—God’s word or logos and the picture of wisdom personified from,
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