Handbook on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament - Exegesis and Interpretation

Following on the heels of the Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, and Beale's landmark A New Testament Biblical Theology, this guide is a perfect aid for students and ministers who are either beginning or have progressed to some degree into this field. Critically important to biblical studies--within the church and the academy--this book provides a reliable framework from which to engage the most serious questions.

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.This handbook provides readers with a wonderful overview of key issues in and tools for the study of the use of the Old Testament in the New. I expect it to become a standard textbook for courses on the subject and the first book to which newcomers will be directed to help them navigate through these sometimes complex waters.--Roy E. Ciampa, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary