Fredrick Holmgren has brought his years of thoughtful interpretation of the Old Testament to a climax in a work that goes right to the central issues for the church's appropriation of the Old Testament. He has heard the Old Testament in its own right, in no way superseded by the New Testament, and has shown us how that word of the Old Testament is heard afresh and in full continuity in Jesus Christ. He grasps and helps us finally under stand why and how an early community of Jews who worshiped the God of the Old Testament saw in Jesus that same God at work in the same way. No Christian theology can avoid the question that is here taken up so directlys What does the Old Testament have to do with Jesus? Whoever thinks that question really does matter will want to read wut Holmgren has to say about it."