Intertextual Explorations in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature /
This volume explores the fundamentals of intertextual methodology and summarizes recent scholarship on studies of intertextuality in the deuterocanonical books. The essays engage in comparison and analysis of text groups and motifs between canonical, deuterocanonical and non-biblical texts. Moreover...
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Encountering Intertextuality in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature
- 1. Looking to the Past
- Deuterocanonical References to Abraham, Moses, and David
- Structural Use of Scripture in the Book of Ben Sira
- Divine Retribution and Reward Revisited: The Rereading and Reapplication of Isaiah 59 in Wisdom 5
- The Prayer of Manasseh: A Pithy Penitential Text Recasting Scripture Through a Vast Intertextual Repertoire
- The Ultimate Femme Fatale: An Intertextual Comparison of Judith and Inanna
- 2. Looking at the Present
- Reading Judith, Tobit and Second Maccabees as Responses to Hegemony
- Hanukkah in 1 and 2 Maccabees: An Intertextual Reading
- Mother Zion and Mother Earth in 2 Baruch and 4 Ezra
- 3. Looking to the Future
- The Book of Tobit in the Story of Cornelius in Acts 10
- The Medieval Hebrew (H5) of Tobit: Use of Scripture and Influence of Rabbinic and Medieval Jewish Traditions
- Interpreting Tobit Two Ways: Inner-biblical Exegesis and Intertextuality
- Conclusion
- Methodological Reflections for Future Intertextual Studies
- List of Contributors
- Index of References
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Modern Authors