The Old Testament and the New Covenant

New Testament Use of the Old Testament

The present writer has counted 224 direct citations introduced by a definite formula indicating the writer purposed to quote. To these must be added seven cases where a second quotation is introduced by the conjunction “and,” and 19 cases where a paraphrase or summary rather than a direct quotation follows the introductory formula. We may further note at least 45 instances where the similarity ...

A Critique of Gentry and Wellum’s, Kingdom through Covenant: an Old Testament Perspective

god and human history from the perspective of the qur’ān and the new and old testament

attention to the past, present, and future of human history has an outstanding place in the holy texts of the abrahamic religions. the books existing in the old testament begin the human story, with a relatively history-like structure, from the beginning of creation of the world and man and continues until getting to the emergence of the people of banī isrā’īl. from this point on, this history ...

Mission Theology in the Old Testament: A New Paradigm

In theological and missionary circles there is a growing tendency to look for a valid justification of mission. The Bible is searched and most scholars identify several passages in the New Testament as “commissions” for mission. However, mission seems to be present in the Old Testament, too, but scholars do not seem to find an equivalent command to go to the ends of the world. Charles Scobie ex...

The Music of the Old Testament Reconsidered

Surviving examples of musical instruments and representations of them show that during the first half of the first millennium B.C. a considerable range of types was in use in Mesopotamia and Egypt, as well as in north Syria and south-east Asia Minor. Since there are numerous references in the Old Testament to music and musicians it is a reasonable assumption that, though there are few represent...