this interpretive method in one sentence: The New Testament is concealed in the Old, and the Old is revealed in the New. The historical reasons for preserving the Christological reading of the Psalter are as compelling as the theological reasons. For the Tradition is not merely a projection of Christian theology onto non-Christian texts. It is, rather, an organic development, an uninterrupted continuation, of the Jewish exegesis of Jesus’ contemporaries. The Jews of the first century (and the preceding