Chizuk Emunah Under the Microscope: Chapter 45

Even the Jewish scholars at Bar Ilan University and the Hebrew University at Jerusalem mention that the New Testament legitimately interprets the Tanakh. They believe that the New Testament uses pesher interpretation. The writers of pesharim believe that scripture is written in two levels: the surface for ordinary readers with limited knowledge, the concealed one for specialists with higher knowledge. Pesher interpretation was a common form during the era when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written. In modern contexts, this interpretation is sometimes called a sensus plenior, or a fuller sense.

Troki spends chapter 45 going through New Testament interpretations of prophecies, but I will leave my analysis of this for the second section of Troki's book. The key point here is because of sensus plenior or pesher interpretations, and the fact that Second Temple Jews considered these to be legitimate uses of the Scriptures, Troki cannot demonstrate that the New Testament is false by showing that it does not quote the literal or pashat meaning of the original text.