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‘Do you Understand what you Are Reading?’ (Acts 8.30): Current Trends and Future Perspectives in the Study of the Use of the Old Testament in the New

This article provides a response to the contributions included in this special edition of JSNT devoted to the use of the Old Testament in the New. It offers some reﬂections on the common themes and key issues emerging from these articles which appear to be particularly signiﬁcant for current and future study in this ﬁeld. The major developments and concerns considered here include: the impact of the Qumran discoveries, the increasing inﬂuence of literary theory on research in biblical studies, textual plurality and text-form, and exegetical methods and axioms. The article stresses particularly the need to situate New Testament interpretation of scripture within its early Jewish context, and to aim for precision in both methodology and terminology.