Opening the Scriptures: OT in the NT

We have tried to get a sense of the place of the NT within the wide range of biblical and biblically-related literature in the first few centuries BCE and CE. This has included looking at biblical versions (and text critical issues as well), intertestamental literature (OT Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha), NT Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, Early Xn Fathers, Philo, Jospehus, and rabbinic literature.
We have looked at the exegetical methods of the Jewish and Christian authors of the first century.
We have considered what is actually happening or being accomplished when a NT author cites or alludes to an OT text. Prophecy? Typology? Analogy? Simply using biblical language? Fulfillment?
We have examined many OT and NT texts to see firsthand how this OT in the NT stuff works.

As we come to the last few weeks of the semester, what questions still remain for you?

Are their topics or issues you had hoped we would cover and haven’t?

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