PESHER AND THE NEW TESTAMENT The genre of Pesher was directly applied to the exegesis of many parts of the New Testament, especially those of Matthew and Paul. A prominent example is Krister Stendahl’s study (1954) of the so-called ‘formula quotations’ (an English synonym for the German Reflexionscitate), a group of some twenty quotations of the Old Testament text in the Gospel of Matthew, that are characterized by the introductory formula ‘in order that it may be fulfilled’. He argued that in