num_pages: 230
description: Biblical Foundations Book Awards Runner up and Finalist How did the apostles understand the Old Testament? Although relatively few in number the New Testament's explicit summaries of the Old Testament story of Israel give readers direct access into the way the earliest Christians told this storythat is to say into the way they did biblical theology. This stimulating New Studies in Biblical Theology volume examines the passages in the Synoptic Gospels Acts Paul's letters and Hebrews which recount the characters events and institutions of Israel's story in chronological order and at substantial length. The authors demonstrate just how valuable a lens these summaries provide for a clearer vision of the earliest Christians' practice of biblical theology. In doing so they also show how contemporary readers can and should follow the apostles' example. Addressing key issues in biblical theology the works comprising New Studies in Biblical Theology are creative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles. The NSBT series is edited by D. A. Carson aiming to simultaneously instruct and to edify to interact with current scholarship and to point the way ahead.
language: English
title: Biblical Theology According to the Apostles: How the Earliest Christians Told the Story of Israel
publisher: IVP Academic