Scholarly interest in intertextuality remains as keen as ever. Armed with new questions, interpreters seek to improve their understanding of the function of older scripture in later scripture. The essays assembled in the present collection address these questions. These essays treat pre-Christian texts, as well as Christian texts, that make use of older sacred tradition. They analyze the respective uses of scripture in diverse Jewish and Christian traditions. Some of these studies are concerned with discreet bodies of writings, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, while others are concerned with versions of scriptures, such as the Hebrew or Old Greek, and text critical issues. Other studies are concerned with how scripture is interpreted as part of apocalyptic and eschatology. Early Christian Literature and Intertextuality includes essays that explore the use of Old Testament scripture in the Gospels and Acts. Other studies examine the Apostle Paul's interpretation of scripture in his letters, while other studies look at non-Pauline writings and their utilization of scripture. Some of the studies in this collection show how older scripture clarifies important points of teaching or resolves social conflict, law, conversion, anthropology, paradise, and Messianism are among the themes treated in these studies, themes rooted in important ways in older sacred tradition. The collection concludes with studies on two important Christian interpreters, Syriac-speaking Aphrahat in the east and Latin-speaking Augustine in the west.
Author(s): Craig A. Evans, H. Daniel Zacharias
Series: Library of New Testament Studies
Publisher: T & T Clark International
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 264
Early Christian Literature and Intertextuality, Volume 2: Exegetical Studies......Page 1
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of Abbreviations......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 27
Introduction / Craig A. Evans and H. Daniel Zacharias......Page 28
1. A New View on the Relation Between Septuagint and Masoretic Text in the Story of David and Goliath / Jan-Wim Wesselius......Page 32
2. A Case of Psychological Dualism: Philo of Alexandria and the Instruction on the Two Spirits / Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer......Page 54
3. Jesus' Jewish Hermeneutical Method in the Nazareth Synagogue / R. Steven Notley......Page 73
4. The Magnificat Among the Biblical Narrative-Set Psalms / Scot Becker......Page 87
5. An Echo of Mercy: A Rereading of the Parable of the Good Samaritan / Nathan Lane......Page 101
6. Psalm 2 and the Son of God in the Fourth Gospel / Steven B. Nash......Page 112
7. Joel 2.28-32A in Acts 2.17-21: the Discourse and Text-Critical Implications of Variation From the LXX / Steven E. Runge......Page 130
8. Genesis 1-3 and Conceptions of Humankind in 4QInstruction, Philo and Paul / Matthew Goff......Page 141
9. Why Can't the one Who Does these Things Live By Them'? The Use of Leviticus 18.5 in Galatians 3.12 / Preston M. Sprinkle......Page 153
10. Surrogate, Slave and Deviant? the Figure of Hagar in Jewish Tradition and Paul (Galatians 4.21-31) / Troy A. Miller......Page 165
11. Subverting Sarah in the New Testament: Galatians 4 and 1 Peter 3 / Jeremy Punt......Page 182
12. I Will Give Authority Over the Nations': Psalm 2.8-9 In Revelation 2.26-27 / Tze-Ming Quek......Page 202
13. Exegesis of Isaiah 11.2 in Aphrahat the Persian Sage / Bogdan G. Bucur......Page 215
Bibliography......Page 227
Index of References......Page 252
Index of Authors......Page 260
