Early Christian Literature and Intertextuality: Volume 1: Thematic Studies (Library of New Testament Studies | LNTS)
Overview
Scholarly interest in intertextuality remains as keen as ever. Armed with new questions, interpreters seek to understand better 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.
- Focuses on the nature of sacred Scripture and various aspects of its intertextuality
- Explores early understandings of canon and Scripture
- Examines the interpretation and application of various themes and narratives, allegories, and metaphors
- The Evolution of Genre in the Hebrew Anthology
- Concepts of Scripture in 1 Maccabees
- Ben Sira and Papyrus Insinger
- Is the Bible always Scripture: The ‘Low’ View of the Pentateuch in the Letter of Aristeas
- Refractions of Greek Daniel in the Gospel of Matthew
- Messianic Duality in Matthew and the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Paradise in the Pseudepigrapha
- Aseneth as the ‘Prototype of the Church of the Gentiles’
- Beyond Revealed Wisdom and Apocalyptic Epistemology: The Redeployment of Enochic Traditions about Knowledge in Early Christianity
- The Corinthian Crises and Paul's Use of Numbers in 1 Corinthians 1–5
- How Does Paul Read Scripture
- From Ruler to Teacher: The Extending of the Shepherd Metaphor in Early Jewish and Christian Writings
- Who Influenced Whom? The Reciprocal Influence between the Septuagint and the New Testament Textual Witnesses
- The Nuptial Imagery of Christ and the Church in Augustine's Enarrationes in Psalmos
- K. L. Noll
- Francis Borchardt
- Matthew Goff
- Ian Scott
- Jonathan Pennington
- Anthony Le Donne
- Peter T. Lanfer
- Rivka Nir
- Annette Yoshiko Reed
- Jin Hwang
- Stephen Moyise
- Wayne Baxter
- Radu Gheorghita
- Aaron Canty
- Title: Early Christian Literature and Intertextuality, Volume 1: Thematic Studies
- Authors: Craig A. Evans, Danny Zacharias
- Series: Studies in Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity
- Volume: 1
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2019
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. N.T. › Relation to the Old Testament; Bible. O.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish; Intertextuality in the Bible; Christian literature, Early › History and criticism; Rabbinical literature › History and criticism
- ISBNs: 9780567584755, 9780567341006, 0567584755, 0567341003
- Resource ID: LLS:RLYCHRSTNTHST01
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:44:48Z
Craig A. Evans, PhD, DHabil, is the John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins at Houston Baptist University in Texas. He is a frequent contributor to scholarly journals and the author or editor of over eighty books, including Jesus and His Contemporaries.
H. Daniel Zacharias is a lecturer at Acadia Divinity College in Nova Scotia, Canada.