I found the following quote from Christopher Seitz on the study of prayer in the Old and New Testament interesting.
"Any treatment of prayer in the Old Testament that is sensitive to its canonical shape and full scope, therefore, invites reflection from the very start on how such prayer functions in relation to prayer in the New Testament and as a datum for the Christian faith. Or, to change the architectural metaphor, prayer in the New Testament must be seen as fleshing out of a scaffolding that has already been fully raised and is intact in the scriptures of Israel."
Christopher R. Seitz, Figured Out: Typology and Providence (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001), 160.
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