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Title of the Book: Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period.

About the Author:

The author of the Book Richard N. Longnecker is a professor at the Wycliff College, Toronto. He was contributed to a number of reference works and theological journals, and is the author of three monographs on Paul and the Early Christian Church. Some of the commends is Dr.Longnecker is to be commended for a well informed and engagingly written introduction t the subject, one that will find a useful place in both classroom and the study by E.Earle Ellis of New Brunswick theological Seminary. He writes with clarity and a certain grace. His argument is conducted in a thorough comprehensive manner and his conclusions seem to be sound and balance by Bruce M. Metzger of Princeton Theological Seminary.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgement 7

Abbreviation 8

Introduction 11

1. Jewish hermeneutics in the first century 19
2. Jesus and the old testament 51
3. early Christian preaching in the old testament 79
4. Paul and the Old testament 104
5. The evangelist and the old testament 133
6. Hebrews and the old testament 158
7. Jewish Christian tractates and the Old Testament 186
8. The nature of the New Testament Exegesis. 205

A selection bibliography 221

Index of author 231

Index of reference 234

What is the book all about?

The book contains the different perspective of the Jewish sector. These are the Literalist interpretation, the Midrashic Interpretation, the Pesher Interpretation, and the Allegorical Interpretation. These are the methods that they are going to use as they formulate the exact exegesis meaning of the scriptures. For study purposes it is allowed to use different method to be able to see views from different angles. Also the book considered different picture such as how Jesus was portrayed and the Old Testament, also with Paul and the Old Testament. Also the flashback of how the early Christian preaching in the Old Testament where it presents the Sermonic and Catechetical materials, The phenomena of the quotations, Testimonia Portions and Collections, Exegetical Presupposition, Exegetical Presupposition, and the Exegetical Practices and Patterns. Where the preaching of the early Christians focused upon the revelation and redemption of God in Jesus the Messiah but it is also concerned with an apologetic based on the revelation of God in the Old Testament yet behind both Jesus and Scriptures stood the witness of the Spirit. The evangelist and the Old Testament is a picture of the redemptive work of Christ that even the old times Christ is being proclaimed like in Genesis 3:15. The accounts of the gospels have flashbacks of the book of Isaiah. In the Hebrews and the Old Testament here it shows that the letters to the Hebrews represents in many ways something of a hybrid blending of Jewish Christian themes and expression. In the Jewish Christian Tractates and the Old Testament, in this chapter it gives the nature of the materials of the following book – James, the three books of John, the second Peter, Jude, and Revelation. Together with the Phenomena of the quotations where they present the somewhat confusing mixture of Biblical Citations, biblical allusions, noncanonical materials, and the unidentifiable proverbial maxims. It covers also the literalist treatment. The last chapter is the nature of New Testament exegesis where it presents the Christocentric Interpretation, Common Diverse and developed exegetical patterns, the descriptive and the normative in exegesis. This book opens up to understand the first-century scriptural exegesis properly.