Loading…

The Uses of the Old Testament in the New is unavailable, but you can change that!

Were New Testament writers’ Old Testament quotations accurate? Both redaction and canon criticism have made this question one of their starting points. The apostles were utterly convinced that Old Testament writing anticipated the marvelous events they proclaimed. Did they give meaning to meaningless Old Testament texts? Did they squeeze fulfilled prophecy out of dry passages? Walter Kaiser...

185 different OT passages. In addition to those referenced quotations, he has 198 unacknowledged quotations taken from 147 OT texts plus another 1,167 instances of rewording or paraphrasing reflecting 944 OT passages. His combined total is 1,604 NT citations of 1,276 different OT texts. Roger Nicole had a similar number of direct quotations. He concluded that there were 250 direct quotations with another 45 instances that also depended directly on the OT to make a total of 295 unquestionable separate
Page 3