It has taken me quite a while to go through this book. It is like a dense forest, so many insights crammed together and each deserves thoughtful concentration. It is almost frustrating not to be able to linger in section after section of rich Biblical studies. The author has been a tutor in several Bible Colleges and a principal of one also. His passion has been Jesus Christ and Old Testament studies, and part of his sadness the way many who love Him do not see Christ in the Old Testament nor the Old Testament in Him. This book is a kaleidoscope helping the reader to see the patterns of color that are inseparably connect our Lord Jesus with the former Testament. Wright confesses his indebtedness to many other teachers and writers. He avoids using footnotes and instead includes a Bibliography of around sixty books at the end of this volume, admitting also that there were scores of articles to which he owes much. So, within the modest two hundred and fifty pages of his book he condenses a wealth of Biblical scholarship in a very readable form, however, anyone reading this will have to concentrate! You cannot simply read through it in the usual way, there is too much here, perhaps a little at a time is better, and then returning to reread at times also. It is not Old Testament typology that intrigues and interests him; it is the substance and heart of Christ and of God revealed in the Old and the verities and values of the Old embodied in Jesus as He came to fulfill all things. There are those Christians who have little interest in the Old Testament, regarding it as somewhat irrelevant, this book is a good cure for such people, it is panoramic and reveals the unbroken unity between the God of the Old Testament and His ways and the Christ of the New testament and His ways also. Some of us are aware that there are all kinds of Jesus studies and symposiums around seeking to discover the ‘historical Jesus’ well, here He is, uncovered convincingly in that part of the Bible that some regard as disclosing a harsh and unloving God. Wright tells us that he did not write this book for fellow scholars; rather, he desired to make Christ known and to show how He loved His scriptures and lived and taught fully manifesting their spirit. My only complaint about the book is the lay out, the sections are very long and broken into subsections, I am not sure if another way of breaking it up to make it more readable would have been possible, but this is a minor matter and should in no way detract from the rich value of what is given us here.
