Evangelicals have historically pursued the study of hermeneutics on the conviction that there are God-given principles of interpretation by which any reader may arrive at the meaning of a text. That conviction comes under strain at one particular point: the places where the New Testament writers appear to use Old Testament passages in ways a grammatical-historical method would never have produced. Rynold Dean takes up precisely this problem.

He surveys the main evangelical approaches to the question, from those that grant the apostles a unique inspired liberty to those that argue the Old Testament authors intended more than is usually recognized, and then argues his own position. With a foreword by R. Kent Hughes. For students and pastors who have noticed the difficulty and want it addressed directly rather than passed over in a footnote.