BI190 The Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament: Methodology and Practice
Overview
In this course, Dr. Jeannine Brown shows how we can better understand what the New Testament writers were communicating, by looking at how they referenced the Old Testament. Dr. Brown begins by explaining why New Testament writers referenced the Old Testament, and the four ways in which they did so. She then walks through references in Matthew, John, Philippians, and 1 Peter. See how Jesus is portrayed as the new Adam in John’s Gospel. Discover connections between Jesus’ teaching and the stories of Cain and Abel, Noah, Sodom, and others. Learn new methods for interpreting Scripture, and come away with a fuller picture of how Jesus fulfills the hopes of the Old Testament and completes the story God began with Israel.
Top Highlights
“A second category Longenecker raises is the category of Jewish midrash. Midrash is the interpretive exposition on the biblical text to—as Longenecker puts it—‘contemporize the revelation of God for the people of God.’” (source)
“whatever nt book we come to we’ll want to be asking the question of how the ot is used in that nt book.” (source)
“ot sideways, slightly, with an image, with a couple of words—what’s called an allusion” (source)
“Matthew’s Jesus is not saying you can stop at 77, and then the 78th time feel free to not forgive. Instead, it is that using seven—that number of completeness—to say, ‘You will always need to be forgiving.’ The Christian community is to be known for their forgiveness, to be stamped by this pursuit of forgiveness time and time and time and time again.” (source)
“But even those authors that are writing to clearly Gentile audiences—audiences that might have less familiarity with the ot—still often do interesting allusions that scholars often wonder, ‘Would the first audience have understood that as a pointing back to the ot?’” (source)
- Title: BI190 The Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament: Methodology and Practice
- Author: Jeannine K. Brown
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Bible. N.T. › Relation to the Old Testament; Bible. O.T. › Quotations in the New Testament; Education › Bible. N.T.--Relation to the Old Testament; Education › Bible. O.T.--Quotations in the New Testament
- Resource ID: LLS:BI190BROWN
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:14:55Z
Dr. Jeannine Brown has taught at Bethel Seminary for nearly two decades in the areas of New Testament, hermeneutics, and integration. Her books include Scripture as Communication, Becoming Whole and Holy: An Integrative Conversation about Christian Formation,and the forthcoming volume on Matthew in the Teach the Text Commentary series. She’s written various articles that have been published in Journal of Biblical Literature, New Testament Studies, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Journal of Psychology and Theology, and Journal of Psychology and Christianity. She’s also associate editor of the second edition of the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels.