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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...

In Isaiah 61, the poor are not the people within a community who lack resources, but the community as a whole whose life is hard as it lives under the dominion of a foreign power. In Jesus’ context, Israel’s position is the same, and as the objects of preaching and teaching, the term the poor has this broader meaning in Luke. It denotes the people as a whole. With this connotation, Jesus’ quotation from Isaiah fits Luke’s opening account of the significance of his coming (Lk 1:46–79). Jesus’ disciples
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