2026.03.03 | Douglas S. Huffman. Understanding the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: Forms, Features, Framings, and Functions. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2024. pp. xix + 268. ISBN: 9781540966407.
Review by Kai Akagi, Rikkyo University.
The use of the Old Testament in the New Testament is studied within various frameworks, using various paradigms and methods, and for various research and educational purposes. New works on the topic continue to be produced rapidly. Douglas S. Huffman’s Understanding the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: Forms, Features, Framings, and Functions provides an introductory educational resource for an evangelical audience that distills the complexity of certain areas within the study of the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament. It does so by offering explanation, examples, and paradigms for understanding and organizing each of the areas of the New Testament use of the Old Testament that it considers.
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