dr tony siew, future lecturer in trinity theological college, has this to say about the value of OT studies as well as doing OT studies before embarking on NT studies!
http://cherubim77.blogspot.com/2008/02/reading-revelation.html
He says , 'As such NT scholars that know too little of the OT has led to many disastrous results in biblical scholarship. Can I suggest to potential NT scholars to first learn Hebrew before you learn Greek? Having learned Hebrew and Jewish exegetical methods first will help avoid many pitfalls and rid NT scholarship of assumptions that NT books must follow some Graeco-Roman rhetoric rule-book.
In fact Peter Williams' suggestion that students do 2 Masters (one in OT and one in NT) before PhD study has much to say, for only if we know the Old, then New will make (more) sense, and conversely only if we know the New is the Old truly understood. Jesus and the apostles were interpreters of the OT par excellence and it is ridiculous for OT scholars to think (at least within the faith community) that they know the OT texts better than the early interpreters and authors of the NT Gospels and Letters.'
http://cherubim77.blogspot.com/2008/02/reading-revelation.html
He says , 'As such NT scholars that know too little of the OT has led to many disastrous results in biblical scholarship. Can I suggest to potential NT scholars to first learn Hebrew before you learn Greek? Having learned Hebrew and Jewish exegetical methods first will help avoid many pitfalls and rid NT scholarship of assumptions that NT books must follow some Graeco-Roman rhetoric rule-book.
In fact Peter Williams' suggestion that students do 2 Masters (one in OT and one in NT) before PhD study has much to say, for only if we know the Old, then New will make (more) sense, and conversely only if we know the New is the Old truly understood. Jesus and the apostles were interpreters of the OT par excellence and it is ridiculous for OT scholars to think (at least within the faith community) that they know the OT texts better than the early interpreters and authors of the NT Gospels and Letters.'
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