In text of an email exchange obtained by the Capstone Report, SBTS Professor Jim Hamilton said a full Gospel understanding of Messiah could was not contained in the Old Testament.
In an email discussion on what the Old Testament saints understood about the work of Jesus, SBTS Professor Hamilton told Professor Ishwaran Mudliar, “I think God could have revealed all this in a flash to OT saints, but I don’t see evidence of it in the text. I think progressive revelation happened.”
This view fits with Hamilton’s writing in The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology.