Messiah and the Old Testament Book Review by Nicky

In this article, the writer studies Waler C. Kaiser's work 'The Messiah in the Old Testament'. The writer notes that Kaiser begins his overview by studying the Pentateuch, or the first five books of Moses, and then quickly moves through the rest of the Old Testament with an obvious focus on messianic prophecies. Besides the Pentateuch, Job, the books of Samuel and David as well as the Psalms and the minor prophets are the focus of his analysis. The writer maintains that the strength of Kaiser's account is that it is a very clear viewpoint, with a fairly linear if complex argument. The writer concludes that although a profoundly imperfect and perhaps too short text for the subject it tackles, for readers with an interest in the theological viewpoint of how the Old Testament can be read in dialogue with the New Testament, this book is a good introduction, easy to read, but never 'dumbed down' in terms of the language.