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Reading the Old Testament with the Ancient Church: Exploring the Formation of Early Christian Thought is unavailable, but you can change that!

The contemporary church dismisses Christianity’s foundational Scriptures at its own peril. However, the teachings of the Old Testament are less and less at the center of congregational preaching and conversation. The early church fathers—visionaries such as Augustine, Origen, and Tertullian—embraced the Hebrew Scriptures, allowing the Old Testament to play a central role in the formation of their...

church referred to simply as the “Scriptures.”1 This chapter will briefly examine these early Christian references to the Scriptures. In addition, it will survey the translations in which the early Christians read their Scripture. The very earliest Christians were Jews by birth. Their Scripture had always been what we call the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible. When they became Christians they continued to use these writings as their Scripture.
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