Jesus and the Old Testament : His Application of Old Testament Passages to Himself and His Mission

by France, R. T.

• ISBN13: 9781573830065
• ISBN10: 1573830062
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Regent College Pub

Author Biography

R. T. France is the Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and a member of the Oxford University Faculty of Theology.

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Professor F. F. Bruce
Preface	ix
Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	13	(12)
The subject	13	(1)
The materials	14	(1)
The question of authenticity	15	(3)
Criteria of authenticity	18	(4)
The proposed approach	22	(3)
The Text-Form of the Old Testament Quotations	25	(13)
Quotations which agree with both the LXX and the MT	27	(1)
Quotations which differ from both the LXX and the MT	28	(1)
Quotations which agree with the MT against the LXX	29	(1)
Quotations which agree with one text of the LXX against another	30	(2)
Quotations which agree with the LXX against the MT	32	(4)
Conclusions	36	(2)
Typological Use of the Old Testament	38	(42)
Introduction	38	(5)
Types of Jesus	43	(17)
Types of the disciples of Jesus	60	(7)
Types of Jewish unbelief and its punishment	67	(8)
Conclusions	75	(5)
EXCURSUS 1 The authenticity of Matthew 12:40	80	(83)
The Use of Old Testament Prediction	83	(80)
Introduction	83	(5)
Non-Messianic predictions	88	(9)
Some possible Messianic predictions	97	(3)
David's Lord	100	(3)
Three figures from Zechariah 9--14	103	(7)
The Servant of Yahweh and the Anointed Deliverer	110	(25)
The Son of man	135	(13)
The Messiah according to Jesus -- Summary	148	(2)
The assumption of the role of Yahweh	150	(9)
Conclusions	159	(4)
EXCURSUS 2 The premises of Mark 12:35--37	163	(6)
EXCURSUS 3 The Son of man in Daniel 7	169	(58)
The Originality and Influence of Jesus' Use of the Old Testament	172	(55)
Introduction	172	(1)
Jesus and contemporary Judaism (Qumran, Pseudepigrapha, The Rabbis, Jesus and his contemporaries)	173	(29)
Jesus and early Christianity (The New Testament, Early patristic writers, Jesus and his followers)	202	(21)
The originality and influence of Jesus	223	(4)
Appendix A The reference of Mark 13:24--27	227	(13)
Appendix B A detailed study of the text-form of the Old Testament quotations	240	(19)
Appendix C A table of uses of the Old Testament attributed to Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels	259	(6)
Index of References	265	(16)
Index of Modern Authors	281