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Interpreting the Old Testament Theologically: Essays in Honor of Willem A. VanGemeren is unavailable, but you can change that!

How should Christians read the Old Testament today? Answers to this question gravitate between two poles. On the one hand, some pay little attention to the gap between the Old Testament and today, reading the Old Testament like a devotional allegory that points the Christian directly to Jesus. On the other hand, there are folks who prioritize an Old Testament passage’s original context to such an...

second coming (BC, before Christ),2 the church should read the Old Testament ever mindful that the scarred, living, risen Christ nourishes and sustains his pilgrim church by the Scriptures through the Spirit along their journey toward the New Jerusalem. Although theological in his approach to Scripture, Willem bristles at interpretations that mute the discrete voices of Old Testament texts as they bear witness to Christ. He has a “preconceived answer” detector, readily uncovering how a student or
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