5.21.2010

Bible Knowledge

I am reading through Isaiah and am struck with how many passages I'm familiar with from my NT Bible knowledge. That is, I am reading the OT and being reminded of the NT passage which quotes it. This is not a problem per se. However, the author(s) seem to understand it working the other way around primarily--the NT evoking the OT in the minds of its readers, not the OT evoking the NT's use of the OT in the mind of its readers. We Christians who do not know our OT well are an odd bunch.