Evangelical scholarship has had more than fifty years of extensive and sometimes heated discussion about the use of the Old Testament in the New, and the discussion has produced more positions than most readers can keep straight.

Michael J. Vlach summarizes seven of the key positions held by evangelicals, gives a fair critique of each, and then sets out his own account of how the New Testament authors actually handled the older Scriptures. Perhaps we have now come to a grand summary of that dialogue, writes one reviewer whose own view is among the seven.