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Myrtlefield House The Riches of Divine Wisdom by David W Gooding
The wisdom of God is revealed in both Old and New Testaments but it is impossible to appreciate that wisdom fully if the two are read in isolation. Sometimes the New Testament quotes the Old as authoritative. Sometimes it cancels things that the Old says. At other times it indicates that the Old was a type that illustrates New Testament doctrine. How are we to understand and apply its teaching? Is the New Testament being arbitrary when it tells us how to understand the Old or do its careful interpretations show us how the Old was meant to be understood? Could it be that the New Testaments many different ways of using some of its passages provide us with guidance for reading studying and applying the whole of the Old Testament? Drawing upon many years of biblical research and teaching Professor Gooding addresses these issues by expounding key New Testament passages that use the Old Testament. First he examines the importance of the general relationship of the two testaments. He then considers five major thought categories of the New Testaments interpretation that encompass the many insights that it employs as tools for harvesting the wealth of the Old. Finally he formulates guidelines for interpreting Old Testament narrative and illustrates them from three familiar passages. Taken together these insights provide invaluable help for appreciating the richness of Gods multifaceted wisdom which has come down to us as the revenue of all the ages. David W. Gooding is Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Greek at Queens University Belfast and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. His international teaching ministry is marked by fresh and careful expositions of both testaments. He has published scholarly studies on the Septuagint and Old Testament narratives as well as expositions of Luke John 1317 Acts and Hebrews.show more