Practicing Intertextuality: Ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman Exegetical Techniques in the New Testament
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Practicing Intertextuality attempts something bold and ambitious: to map both the interactions and intertextual techniques used by New Testament authors as they engaged the Old Testament and the discourses of their fellow Jewish and Greco-Roman contemporaries. This collection of essays functions collectively as a handbook describing the relationship between ancient authors, their texts, and audience capacity to detect allusions and echoes. Aimed for biblical studies majors, graduate and seminary students, and academics, the book catalogues how New Testament authors used the very process of interacting with their Scriptures (that is, the Masoretic Text, the Septuagint, and their variants) and the texts of their immediate environment (including popular literary works, treatises, rhetorical handbooks, papyri, inscriptions, artifacts, and graffiti) for the very production of their message.
Each chapter demonstrates a type of interaction (that is, doctrinal reformulations, common ancient ethical and religious usage, refutation, irenic appropriation, and competitive appropriation), describes the intertextual technique(s) employed by the ancient author, and explains how these were practiced in Jewish, Greco-Roman, or early Christian circles. Seventeen scholars, each an expert in their respective fields, have contributed studies which illuminate the biblical interpretation of the Gospels, the Pauline letters, and General Epistles through the process of intertextuality.
- Investigates the literary relationship between ancient author and their audiences
- Seeks to map out hot the New Testament authors interpreted other bodies of discourse, and it suggests an initial taxonomy of intertextual practices
- Helps scholars and students to appreciate how the very process of intertextuality contributes to the meaning and composition of the New Testament
Interactions, Intertextuality, and Readership in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Early Christian Discourse
- A Taxonomy of Intertextual Interactions Practiced by NT Authors
- Quotations, Allusions, and Echoes
- Intertextuality in Pompeian Plaster
- Paul's Multi-Layered Use of Scripture
- Intertextuality and Exegetical Techniques in Hebrews
Practicing Intertextuality in the Gospels
- The Church's One Foundation?
- Scriptural Allusion and Bodily Age in Luke 1-2
- Vision and Re-Envision
Practicing Intertextuality in the Pauline Letters
- "Consecrated by the Brother/Sister"
- Negotiating Piety
- The Corporate Σώμα in Epictetus and Paul
- Paul: Theologian, Historian, or Something Else?
Practicing Intertextuality in the General Letters
- Precedents for Prosopological Exegesis and Features of Its Use in the Epistle to the Hebrews
- Humor in Hebrews
- Intertextuality beyond Echoes
- Intertextual Echoes in Ephesus
For many years, the SBL Intertextuality in the NT Section has done great work generating progress in understanding this area. This collection of essays, mainly from the Section, is particularly welcome both in offering organized reflections on key methodological issues and in further cementing the expansion of NT intertextuality work to encompass the broad range of intertextual relations in the first-century world.
—Peter Oakes, University of Manchester
Max Lee and B. J. Oropeza have assembled a very strong collection of engaging studies that both deepen and broaden our understanding of intertextuality in the late classical period. I really appreciate how the Greco-Roman practice of intertextuality is brought into the conversation. Practicing Intertextuality breaks new ground and puts this important discipline on a very promising path.
—Craig A. Evans, Houston Baptist University
- Title: Practicing Intertextuality: Ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman Exegetical Techniques in the New Testament
- Authors: B. J. Oropeza, Max J. Lee
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Pages: 376
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- ISBNs: 9781725274389, 9781725274396, 9781725274402, 1725274388, 1725274396, 172527440X
- Resource ID: LLS:PRCTCNGNTTSTMNT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-05-17T17:34:34Z