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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...

prediction or foretelling this event or that. Rather, we understand it in its classical sense of making known the word of God. The older revelation is probed and pondered, and out of it comes forth new meaning and new application. The word of God speaks afresh. The primary goal of the interpreter, translator, and paraphraser in late antiquity was to allow the sacred text to speak to the new situation, to address the new problems, to answer the new questions. Study of the function of the
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