This collection of essays is published on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Annual Hawarden Seminar, celebrating four decades of scholarship on the use of the Old Testament in the New (OT/NT). Special focus is placed on matters with which the seminar has recently grappled concerning methodological approaches in OT/NT discourse. The essays are contributed by seminar members engaging with the topic, and the volume is presented in four thematic sections: methodological insights from outside the NT, the role of OT context, the role of criteria, and responses.
The first section opens with an interdisciplinary discussion from research in Hebrew Bible (HB), ancient Jewish literature, OT intertextuality, and ancient media culture. To begin, Susan Docherty provides an overview of research on OT inner-biblical allusions by surveying the contributions of Michael Fishbane, who demonstrated a fundamental continuity between the interpretive techniques of the HB and later forms of Jewish...
