The Review of Biblical Literature has posted a review by Stephen Moyise of Three Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. This Zondervan volume was edited by Kenneth Berding and Jonathan Lunde, and featured Walter Kaiser, Darrell Bock, and me, each defending a different position on the often curious way that New Testament writers used Old Testament passages, ways that seem to have little to do with their (apparent) original meaning or context.

Much of Moyise’s review is focused on Kaiser, namely Moyise’s judgment that Kaiser is intent to impose doctrinally driven explanations onto phenomena that are not amenable to such explanations. For example, referring to Matthew’s use of Hosea 11:1, Moyise says, “In one sense, the debate is about hermeneutics, but one wonders if, more fundamentally, it is about one’s view of God. Kaiser’s God would not inspire Hosea to speak about the exodus and then inspire Matthew to find new meaning in the same words. Enns thinks this is precisely what the God who became incarnate in Jesus would do.”

Download the complete review here.

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