I'm now reading Old Testament scholar John Walton's book Covenant: God's Purpose, God's Plan. Anyone desiring to take a very deep dive into the nature and purpose of biblical "covenant" would do well to begin here. It's hard to imagine anyone who knows more than Walton about this subject.
Here's a juicy quote from my readings today.
"Christ as the new Torah fulfills the covenantal Torah in the sense that he carries out all that the former was ever meant to be...
Christ is the new Torah within the new covenant...
In Christ, the covenant relationship is redefined, but the basic thrust of the covenant has not changed. Now the character of God is revealed not through legislative examples of how a godly person will act, but by God’s Son who came and lived among us. The map has been replaced by a guide. That does not make the map wrong, but a guide makes a map unnecessary."
(Pp. 176-177)
