Handbook on the New Testament use of the Old Testament
Subtitle: exegesis and interpretation
By: G.K. Beale
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780801038969
Subjects: Bible; Relation to the New Testament; Hermeneutics
Description: "This concise guide by a leading New Testament scholar helps readers understand how to better study the multitude of Old Testament references in the New Testament. G. K. Beale, coeditor of the bestselling Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, focuses on the 'how to' of interpreting the New Testament use of the Old Testament, providing students and pastors with many of the insights and categories necessary for them to do their own exegesis. Brief enough to be accessible yet thorough enough to be useful, this handbook will be a trusted guide for all students of the Bible" -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Challenges to interpreting the use of the Old Testament in the new; title: Seeing the Old Testament in the new: definitions of quotations and allusions and criteria for discerning them; title: An approach to interpreting the Old Testament in the new; title: Primary ways the New Testament uses the Old Testament; title: Hermeneutical and theological presuppositions of the New Testament writers; title: The relevance of Jewish backgrounds for the study of the Old Testament in the new: a survey of the sources; title: A case study illustrating the methodology of this book.