The debate over whether New Testament writers were entirelyaccurate in their quoting from the Old Testament has raged since beforethe turn of the century. This fundamental question has been one startingpoint in thought for both redaction and canon criticism. A majority ofcontemporary scholars have even agreed that New Testament writers (andreaders) permissively interpreted the Old Testament text. Author WalterKaiser, Jr. elucidates how this state of doctrinal affairs came about.He references the Old Testament text for accurate exegesis and contentto answer the one question symbolizing the entire work: "Have the NewTestament writers fairly cited the Old Testament quotations according totheir real truth-intention and original writer's meaning in theirattempt to show that the Messiah and many of the events in the firstcentury A.D. church had indeed been anticipated by the O.T. writers" Theapostles preached and wrote while utterly convinced that Old Testamentwriting had anticipated the marvelous events they proclaimed. Did theygive meaning to meaningless Old Testament texts? Did they squeezefulfilled prophecy out of a dry passage? These are the central questionsanswered in this work.