What is it about?
Chapter 2 from the book Why a New Testament? Covenant as an Impetus for New Scripture in Early Christianity (Leiden: Brill, 2025). Chapter 2 investigates the Hebrew Bible (HB) as the chief source for early Christian theology. This chapter explores the covenantcovenant document pattern within the HB, specifically a narrative pattern of Mosaic covenants being followed by covenant documents that likely shaped early Christian expectations regarding covenant and scripture. Furthermore, this chapter considers the scriptural status of the covenant documents and whether Jeremiah 31 envisions this pattern continuing with the inauguration of the new covenant.
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Why is it important?
This chapter demonstrates that than militating against the reception of new written scriptures, the HB provides a narrative pattern that likely informed and shaped early Christian expectations regarding covenant and scripture.
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This page is a summary of: The Hebrew Bible Foundation for a Scriptural Expectation, September 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004735422_003.
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