Bauckham on Christian Exegesis
Much of the creative theological thinking in earliest Christianity was done by way of Old Testament exegesis. ... They brought the Old Testament text into relationship with the history of Jesus in a process of mutual interpretation from which some of their profoundest theological insights sprang.
God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament
p. 47
Bauckham, R. (1998). God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament. Paternoster Press.