In EB there is a strong use of the OT as Scripture. However, the author is very often cavalier in his handling of the text, if not blatantly mistaken, committing errors in quoting certain passages. Some NT passages are alluded to, whilst there are also references to apochryphal texts such as Enoch and IV Esdras.
The hermeneutical method is definitely allegorical, seeking to find christological applications in just about every nook and cranny of the OT. At times it becomes even esoteric, as when the author seeks to find significance in the numbers of men circumcised by Abraham, affirming that his readers are the first to have this secret revealed to them. The author claims that understanding the spiritual meaning comes from having one's ears and heart circumcised, and at times this even leads him to disdain the literal meaning, as when he claims that the Jews misunderstood the food laws because "they received them according to fleshly desire, as if he had merely spoken of literal meats."
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