Wednesday, November 11, 2009

The NT reads the OT

As I work through the Proverbs, commentators are quick to note that the eschatological expectations of the Jews before the time of Christ are not well understood, and that we ought not read the New Testament expectations of life after death into the Old Testament. Reading Hebrews and 1 Corinthians, however, it seems to me the New Testament reads its expectations of life after death out of the Old Testament.