The Use of the Old Testament in the New and Other Essays now on-line

Duke University Press have kindly allowed me permission to place online all the essays from the following Festschrift:

James M. Efird, editor, The Use of the Old Testament in the New and Other Essays: Studies in Honor of William Franklin Stinespring. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1972. ISBN: 0822302888. pp.332.


It contains two articles on the use of the OT in the New (always a popular subject) as well as contributions by renowned biblical scholars J.H. Charlesworth and W.D. Davies. Of note is the article on Gnostic exegesis of the OT. Click here for a full listing.

Edwin M. Yamauchi on Qumran and Colosse

The following article is now available in PDF:

Edwin M. Yamauchi, "Qumran and Colosse," Bibliotheca Sacra 121 (April-June 1964): 141-152.

In one of his earliest published articles Professor Yamauchi examines the nature of the Colossian heresy.