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Preaching Christ from the Old Testament: A Contemporary Hermeneutical Method is unavailable, but you can change that!

Arguing for the need both to preach Christ in every sermon and to preach regularly from the Old Testament, Sidney Greidanus develops a christocentric method that will help preachers do both simultaneously. Greidanus challenges Old Testament scholars to broaden their focus and to understand the Old Testament not only in its own historical context but also in the context of the New Testament....

typology: “See, something greater than Jonah is here!… See, something greater than Solomon is here!” (Matt 12:41–42).71 With this background, we can now formulate a few specific rules for handling typological interpretation: First, always precede typological interpretation with literary-historical interpretation (literary includes grammatical). We must know the author’s message for Israel before we look for ways to focus the message on Jesus Christ and apply it to the church.
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