Understanding How New Testament Authors Quoted the Old Testament

“Evangelical scholarship has had over fifty years of extensive (and at times, heated) discussion on the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament. However, now with the appearance of Professor Vlach’s book, The Old in the New: Understanding How New Testament Authors Quoted the Old Testament, we may have come to a grand summary of that extensive dialogue. Michael J. Vlach has carefully summarized seven key positions of various evangelicals (including my view) and has made a legitimate critique of each of the views. But more than that, he has also sampled widely most, if not all, of the usual passages raised on this topic and given a reasonable solution on scripture text after scripture text—in a succinct, but believable way. I can never commend Vlach’s work too highly, for I have found that he has hit the nail on the head in all cases. For years to come, students of theology and pastors will turn to this excellent treatment of this topic and find that it is exactly what they were looking for. Thank you, Professor, for carrying out this task so successfully.”

Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.
President Emeritus
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary