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The Right Doctrine from the Wrong Texts?: Essays on the Use of the Old Testament in the New is unavailable, but you can change that!

If Paul and other New Testament authors were publishing today, would scholars accept their exegetical methods? This collection of essays presents various perspectives concerning the hermeneutical issue of whether Jesus and the apostles quoted Old Testament texts with respect for their broader Old Testament context. Each of the contributors debates the interpretive understandings by which Old...

made not to a personal statement recorded in Scripture but to an utterance of God, which the writer was commissioned to transmit as such. In a number of passages both the divine and the human authorship appear side by side. “… which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet …” (Matt. 1:22). “David himself said in the Holy Spirit” (Mark 12:36; cf. Matt. 22:43). “… the Holy Spirit spake before by the mouth of David” (Acts 1:16; cf. 4:25). “Well spake the Holy Spirit through Isaiah the prophet …” (Acts
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