Have you ever been reading along in the New Testament when, seemingly out of nowhere, Paul or Peter will grab an Old Testament passage and use it to argue for a particular theological position or to explain a historical event? For example, Peter, in explaining the immediate aftermath of Pentecost, cites Joel 2:28-32. Or Paul, in describing the hardening of Israelites, cites passages in Exodus (9:16; 33:19) originally descriptive, in Moses’ day, of Pharaoh.
Scholarly debate on the import and precise meaning of such citations has increased in the last ten to twenty years. Now, Baker Academic is releasing (on November 1) what promises to be a very helpful volume for assessing these difficult passages. Edited by G.K. Beale and D.A. Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
The contributors:
Craig Blomberg (Denver Seminary) – Matthew
Rikk E. Watts (Regent College) – Mark
David W. Pao (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) and Eckhard J. Schnabel (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) – Luke
Andreas J. Köstenberger (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) – John
I. Howard Marshall (University of Aberdeen) – Acts
Mark A. Seifrid (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) – Romans
Brian Rosner (Moore Theological College) and Roy Ciampa (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) – 1 Corinthians
Peter Balla (Károli Gáspár University, Budapest) – 2 Corinthians
Moisés Silva (author of Philippians in BECNT) – Galatians
Philippians Frank Thielman (Beeson Divinity School) – Ephesians
G. K. Beale (Wheaton College Graduate School) – Colossians
Jeffrey A. D. Weima (Calvin Theological Seminary) – 1 and 2 Thessalonians
Philip Towner (United Bible Societies) – Pastoral Epistles
George Guthrie (Union University) – Hebrews
D. A. Carson (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) – General Epistles
G. K. Beale (Wheaton College Graduate School) and Sean McDonough (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) – Revelation