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From Prophecy to Testament: The Function of the Old Testament in the New is unavailable, but you can change that!

The theology of the New Testament is indebted to—and a reflection of—major Old Testament themes, images, and language, because the New Testament authors wrote in the context of the Old Testament and the rich Jewish tradition of the study and interpretation of Scripture. A group of ancient Jewish writers provided the Christian church with its Old Testament Greek text (the Septuagint) and provided...

came to be what Christians call the Old Testament (OT), Jews call the Tanakh, and scholars call the Hebrew Bible (HB).4 Not surprisingly, in recent years scholars have investigated the approaches and methods of biblical exegesis in late antiquity. The hermeneutical principles of Philo, Josephus, the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the OT Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, NT writers, the various recensions and translations of Scripture, and early rabbinic and ecclesiastical literature have been investigated
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