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.

 

Introduction
1. Challenges to Interpreting the Use of the Old Testament in the New

2. Seeing the Old Testament in the New: Definitions of Quotations and Allusions and Criteria for Discerning Them

3. An Approach to Interpreting the Old Testament in the New

4. Primary Ways the New Testament Uses the Old Testament

5. Hermeneutical and Theological Presuppositions of the New Testament Writers

6. The Relevance of Jewish Backgrounds for the Study of the Old Testament in the New: A Survey of the Sources

7. A Case Study Illustrating the Methodology of This Book

"During the last four decades, not a little serious work has been undertaken to understand better how the New Testament cites the Old. Quite a lot of it was written by Greg Beale. Here, however, he keeps the student in mind and provides an introduction to the subject, complete with helpful bibliographies, useful illustrations, and step-by-step demonstrations of how to think through these issues."--D. A. Carson, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

"This volume fills a gap by providing serious students of Scripture with a helpful tool for interpreting Old Testament citations and allusions in the New Testament. Beale's magisterial grasp of the subject enables him to present a complex and technical yet intriguing subject in such a way that mere mortals are equipped to engage in the study of the New Testament use of the Old Testament on their own."  - Andreas J. Köstenberger, director of PhD studies and senior professor of New Testament and biblical theology, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary