Thursday, August 16, 2007
New Book: Hearing the Old Testament in the New Testament by Stanley E. Porter

I received the following today from Eerdmans:

Stanley E. Porter, ed. Hearing the Old Testament in the New Testament (amazon.com). (Wm. B. Eerdmans: Grand Rapids, MI), 2006. xii, 316pp with indices.

It's quite timely; I'm doing a lot of work thinking about quotations of the Pastoral Epistles in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers and I'm considering a paper on OT references in the NT* for the inaugural BibleTech 2008 conference, hosted by Logos in January 2008. The book should come in very handy to me, particularly Aageson's essay on the major Paulines. As I dig more into that, I will likely blog more about it.

If you have experience with the book, particularly if you've read it and have feedback for how different authors approach quotation, allusion and even looser forms of reference, please feel free to comment here or zap me an email.

Update (2007-08-17): Regarding the phrase, "... I'm considering a paper on OT references in the NT", I mis-remembered what I proposed. What I really proposed was locating NT cross-references automagically; nothing to do with OT references specifically. Whoops. Glad I remembered before I started writing the paper.

Update II (2007-08-29): There are two more posts related to this book:

 

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Post Author: rico
Thursday, August 16, 2007 11:28:10 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00) 

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Friday, August 17, 2007 4:41:31 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
I'm glad to see your post. It reminded me that I haven't received my copy yet--or did I forget to order it? I did a major study several years ago on the use of the OT in James, and I mean to get back into it. So can anyone tell me how this edition differs from the Eerdmans 1980 edition? The copyright page on the 2006 edition doesn't even mention the 1980 edition. Is it a completely different book by the same name and publisher with Porter as the editor in 2006 and the author in 1980?
Zephyr
Friday, August 17, 2007 5:15:08 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Zephyr --

The essays in this book are from a 2003 conference, so I don't think it is the same thing as the 1980 book.
Rico
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