Abstract: The Literary Evolution from the Old Testament to the New Testament, the latest monograph by Yang Jian, presents a comprehensive survey of the latest scholarship on the biblical literature at home and abroad and raises questions on the front line of contemporary biblical studies. Using abundant but highly selective citations from The Bible as evidence, the book generates its arguments from research materials and textual analyses and draws solid conclusions from a comparison between the two Testaments. Its significance as a new breakthrough in the study of biblical literature may be mainly manifested in three aspects: first, establishing a new system of a comparative study between the two Testaments for Chinese scholars; second, introducing a series of valuable scholarly views; third, making contributions to the research in The Bible-related academic fields.

Key words: The Literary Evolution from the Old Testament to the New Testament, biblical literature, literary evolution