L'Antic Testament més que simple promesa i prehistòria del nou

The Old Testament is not only prehistory or preparation of the New Testament. The relation of Church and Synagoga, Christianity and Judaism is an issue of primary importance, a question on which the taking of a view could not be shirked. In an age when novelty in religion was no recommendation, it was part of the business of defining the continuity and discontinuity to be seen in the coming of Christ. Yet, because of the role of Scripture in Israels consciousness, this latter question was always present. As far as the second century is concerned, it is not unfair to say that what with hinsight we identify as orthodox Christianity was that part of the Christian movement which remained closest to Judaism by the reading of the books of the Tenak.