the fluidity of text types in first-century Palestine, or perhaps more simply to the biblical writer’s memory. Such matters are worthy of detailed discussion, but are not of concern here. Rather, there is another problem that proves to be more problematic, and that I feel can be stated quite plainly, despite recurring protestations to the contrary: NT writers attribute meaning to OT texts that clearly differ from the intention of the OT author.10 This problem can be fleshed out more precisely: The