The significance of the syn-compounds for Jew-gentile relationships in the body of Christ

Abstract

"One of the vexing questions in the history of Biblical exegesis has been the relationship of the two Testaments to each other.' While covenantal theology has tended to maximize the continuity and minimize the discontinuity between the Old and New Testaments, dispensationalism has tended to minimize the continuity and maximize the discontinuity.2 The present paper aims to narrow the gap between covenantal theology and dispensationalism by discussing a neglected dimension of the NT data relevant to the whole problem of continuity and discontinuity: the syn-compounds"