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Do We Need the New Testament?: Letting the Old Testament Speak for Itself is unavailable, but you can change that!

Do we need the Old Testament? That’s a familiar question, often asked. But as an Old Testament scholar, John Goldingay turns that question on its head: Do we need the New Testament? What’s new about the New Testament? After all, the Old Testament was the only Bible Jesus and the disciples knew. Jesus affirmed it as the Word of God. Do we need anything more? And what happens when we begin to look...

through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ (Jn 1:17). He hardly means that Moses didn’t know about God being grace and truth. That very phrase sums up God’s self-revelation to Moses in Exodus 34:6, which is then alluded to many times in the First Testament. The King James Version (among others) has the very words gracious and truth as part of its translation of the verse in Exodus. Grace and truth came through Moses in the sense that he treated these realities as the foundation of God’s
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