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Two Testaments, One Story

Top evangelical scholars team up for landmark commentary on New Testament use of Old Testament.

Interview by Collin Hansen | posted 2/08/2008 10:06AM

About a decade ago, Wheaton College Graduate School professor Greg Beale had the idea to develop a one-volume commentary that would address every instance a New Testament writer quotes or alludes to the ...

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Rob Tamaki

Posted: February 15, 2008 2:05 AM

This sounds like a wonderful work, which I look forward to reading. I have found that in my NT studies, a solid understanding of how the NT writers are using the OT is indispensable. Too often exegetes and commentators have failed to appreciate how an NT writer is using a particular text, and usually they fail to even consider the function of the cited text within the canonical and extra-canonical corpus. And this has led, unfortunately, to innumerable problems with their NT hermeneutic, leading to distorted or superficial teachings in the present. OF course, I reserve final judgment until I read the book, but based upon this discussion, it sounds like it will be an important contribution to biblical studies.

Sara	Posted: February 11, 2008 3:34 PM

If what I have gathered so far from this article, these men are on the right track. Jesus, Paul and all of the Apostles taught from the "Old Testament". Everything that was taught was not new, it was old. The only thing new that was taught was the Renewed Covenant. “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. Isn't it interesting that we are told since we now have the laws in our hearts we no longer have to observe the Laws of God?? Think about it...

jason johansen

Posted: February 09, 2008 8:16 PM


This sounds like a great reference tool. Also this article is well informed and has a lot of good points in it about biblical interpretation.

Ephrem Hagos

Posted: February 09, 2008 12:32 AM

It is a source of inspiration that the big picture in the whole Bible is nothing more or less than the centrality of the cross of Christ spanning all the way from the watershed of the twin trees in the Garden of Eden (Gen. 2). The crucifixion of Jesus Christ is an integral part of Old Testament history, types, prophecy and new order of worship in the New Testament all the way to the Book of Revelation.

Galen Currah

Posted: February 08, 2008 5:05 PM

This four-page article was long enough to prove a small treatise, not a mere blurb. Bible translators, who must put both testaments into a fourth language, agonize over renderings that might appear contradictory while refusing to fudge the text. Since all translations into non-indoeurpean languages must be of the "dynamic equivalence" kind, one has to find a way to say that a NT event "fulfilled" an OT text. The current work should prove a help to translators in determining the way in which one text "fulfilled" the other while remaining true to the Word and to the authors' words.

JDH	Posted: February 08, 2008 2:04 PM


I am very excited about this new project. I've been waiting for a volume like this for several years and I can't wait to have it in my library. May the Lord use it to greatly enrich biblical studies and give pastors and students the answers they need to counter criticisms of Scripture.

Sam Nadler

Posted: February 08, 2008 1:18 PM

This is exciting! Often the Hebrew Scriptures have been virtually divorced from many believers present tense faith by so called "New Testament" Christians (though we are really whole bible believers, 2 Tim 3:16). When in fact, we see that the New Covenant writings are the fruit that should never be separated from the root, since it is truly the root supports us and not us the root (Rom 11:18). Yes, all Scripture is both inspiried and equally profitable.

Just me

Posted: February 08, 2008 11:25 AM


Thank you, thank you!

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