Areas of Consideration for the Study of the Old Testament in the New

 

1. Scripture / Hebrew Bible / Old Testament

 

2. Translations of Scripture

·         Hebrew

§         Pre-Masoretic Text > Masoretic Text

§         Qumran / Dead Sea Scrolls

§         Samaritan

·         Greek

§         Septuagint

§         Aquila

§         Symmachus

§         Theodotion

·         Aramaic Targums

§         Targum Onkelos

§         Neofiti I

§         Fragment(ary) Targum (=Yerushalmi II)

§         Cairo Geniza Fragments

§         Targum Pseudo-Jonathan (= Yerushalmi [I])

§         Targum Jonathan

§         Targum Yerushalmi

§         Rishon Sheni

·         Syriac

·         Latin

§         Old Latin

§         Roman Psalter

§         Gallican Psalter

§         Vulgate

§         Jerome’s Latin based on the Hebrew

·         Other: Samaritan Targum of Pentateuch, Coptic, etc.

3. Jewish Intertestamental and Extrabiblical Works

·         OT Apocrypha

·         OT Pseudepigrapha

·         Dead Sea / Qumran

·         Philo

·         Josephus

4. New Testament

·         Q and other pre-NT traditions

·         Jesus and Scripture

·         Paul and Scripture

·         NT Authors and Scripture

5. Rabbinic Literature
6. Early Christian Literature

·         Apostolic Fathers

·         Ante-Nicene Fathers

·         NT Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

7. History of Interpretation and Exegetical Methods

·         Translation

·         Midrash

·         Pesher

·         Allegory

·         Typology