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The Old in the New: Understanding How the New Testament Authors Quoted the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Evangelical scholarship has had over fifty years of extensive (and at times, heated) discussion over the usage of the Old Testament in New Testament. However, now with the appearance of professor Vlach’s book The Old in the New: Understanding How the New Testament Authors Quoted the Old Testament, perhaps we have now come to a grand summary of that extensive dialogue.

(OR SENSUS PLENIOR APPROACH) Proponents of the “human meaning plus fuller divine meaning” position hold that there are two levels of meaning in some OT passages. First, there is the human authorial intent. This involves what the human OT author consciously understood. But since Scripture is a divine book as well, there also is a God-intended fuller and/or hidden meaning that goes beyond what the human Bible author intended or knew. As Paul Feinberg
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