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The Character of Christian Scripture: The Significance of a Two-Testament Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christopher Seitz illuminates the two-testament character of Scripture and examines its significance for the contemporary church. He explicates the canonical interpretation project of Brevard Childs, interacts critically with current interest in the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament, and addresses an issue of perennial concern: how to hear both testaments as Christian witness. This volume...

A related matter should also be filed at this juncture, and this has to do with Paul’s own apostolic office and the self-understanding that animates Paul in the faithful exercise of that office. Though he may not have expressed the issue with the kind of acuity Hays was looking for, Longenecker also touches on this issue, though from a different perspective. The question could be posed thus: In what sense does Paul judge his interpretation of the OT,
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