Methodology in the Use of the Old Testament in the New: Context and Criteria

This volume considers three areas of methodological interest or focus with respect to the use of the Old Testament in the New, and contains several invited essays on each focus area. The first section sets the scene, by opening up an interdisciplinary conversation as to what insights Old Testament and New Testament scholars might glean from other related disciplines.

The following two sections look more closely at questions of context and of criteria. Firstly, several essays consider the notion of an Old Testament text's 'context', and how contemporaneous authors such as Philo or the Qumran community conceived of, and attended to, the concept. The essays then turn their focus onto the criteria that can/should be used for determining Old Testament allusions or echoes, and the legitimacy for so doing, particularly responding to the work of Richard Hays and Greg Beale.