Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament

Religious ideas and concepts are subject to evolutionary processes just like any other aspect of life or the context within which life is lived out. This is certainly true of Christianity, even in its earliest forms of expression. Most major religions rely on a certain textual foundation as their starting point and for Christians this is the combined books of the Old Testament, which are held in reverence by the Jewish and Islamic faiths also, and the New Testament which contains those explicitly Christian revelations in terms of the life of Christ, the history of the church immediately after Christ's...