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Psalms Old and New: Exegesis, Intertextuality, and Hermeneutics is unavailable, but you can change that!

Reading the book of Psalms in its original context is the crucial prerequisite for reading its citation and use in later interpretation, including the New Testament writings, argues Ben Witherington III. Here he offers pastors, teachers, and students an accessible commentary to the Psalms, as well as a reasoned consideration of how they were heard and read in early Christianity. By reading...

and contrasting the two.3 In general, it is clear that the earliest Christians, some due to language limitations and others due to the need to express their thoughts in the lingua franca of the age, almost always used some preexisting Greek text of the Psalms when they quoted, paraphrased, or excerpted material. In part this may be put down to the fact that the early Christian movement was overwhelmingly an evangelistic venture meant to spread the news about Jesus of Nazareth to all and sundry. In
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