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Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Another review of Henze & Lincicum (eds.) Israel’s Scriptures in Early Christian Writings

BOOK REVIEW: Israel’s Scriptures in Early Christian Writings: The Use of the Old Testament in the New. WRITTEN BY MATTHIAS HENZE AND DAVID LINCICUM, EDS. (Benjamin E. Castaneda, Themelios Volume 50 - Issue 3).
In the decades since Richard Hays’s groundbreaking Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989), there has been a tremendous outpouring of secondary literature on the relationship between the OT and the NT, mostly focusing on the latter’s reuse of the former. This hefty edited volume, comprising a lengthy introduction and forty-two dense chapters, not only outlines the status quaestionis but also aims to advance the scholarly conversation. ...
I noted the publication of the book here and another review here.

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