Biblical Theology according to the Apostles: How the Earliest Christians Told the Story of Israel (Biblia.com)

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Although relatively few in number, the New Testament’s explicit summaries of the Old Testament story (e.g., Acts 7, Rom 9–11, and Heb 11) give readers direct access into the way the earliest Christians told Israel’s story, which is to say, into the way they did biblical theology. These curiously-overlooked summaries are the subject of this study. The first part focuses on the summaries of...

Christian bishop Irenaeus is most famous for taking this approach.3 And yet long before Irenaeus Jewish interpreters of the Bible summarized their understanding of holy writ in narrative historical form. Such summaries are found both within the OT (e.g. Neh. 9; Pss 105; 106; etc.) and outside it (e.g. Sir. 44–50). Our interest in this book, however, is not in these pre-Christian summaries, but rather in the summaries of Israel’s story composed after the coming of Jesus Christ in the apostolic witness

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