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IGNACIO CARBAJOSA AND LUIS SÁNCHEZ NAVARRO (eds.), Entrar en lo Antiguo: Acerca de la relación entre Antiguo y Nuevo Testamento (Presencia y diálogo 16; Madrid: Facultad Teología San Dámaso, 2007). Pp. 173. Paper N.P.
This collection of essays, the product of a conference entitled "Old and New Testament" sponsored by the theological faculty of San Dámaso (Madrid), addresses the issue of reading the Bible as a unified book, concentrating particularly on the relationship between the two Testaments. The essays present an explicitly Catholic reading of Scripture that "conceives both Testaments not as successive stages in a manner of improvement, but rather as a single mystery in its double expression of announcement and fulfillment" (p. 16). The book is divided into two uneven parts, the first consisting of four essays under the heading "The Old and the New," the second consisting of one lengthier piece under the heading "The Old in the New."
In the opening essay "El Antiguo Testamento, realidad abierta" (pp. 2 1 -50), Carbajosa takes on the challenge of literary critic Harold Bloom, who contends that the NT stole the Hebrew Scriptures and provided a revisionist...