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Reading Between the Letters of the Gospels
About this book
What if the texts of the canonical Gospel authors provide commentary alongside the texts they created? That is the interpretative question pursued in many of these essays that supplement the collection done in 2012 for Wipf and Stock. Taking a cue from Aratos and Vergil, among others, these studies point to configurations of letters that reference some aspect of the topic dealt with in already integral words in the main text. Attention to letters sprinkled throughout a passage may uncover integral words on their own "but the beholder wanting." Through this lens, one may trace the formative influence of the letters Yhwh on Isaiah and Matthew, hear more echoes of Homer and Pindar in Mark, observe extensive engagement with Aratos in Luke-Acts, and the descriptor "beloved" used of Judas in John. Through this lens, one may detect that Matthew and Luke focused on the Pentateuch as a whole when they supplement Mark. The intercalated letters of the Gospel writers' names in the Farewell Discourse of John also suggest that he self-consciously works within the lineup that we now know. This reading strategy is an art as much as a science, but, when used responsibly, it opens a new question within traditional redactional investigations.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Introduction
- Pentateuchal Unity in Matthew 1 and 2
- Yhwh in the Servant Poems of Isaiah and in Matthew 4—12
- Without a Wedding Garment: A Note on Matthew 22:12
- Skylla, Charybdis, and Planktae in Mark 5—7
- K-L-B in Mark 7
- “. . .And having spit. . .” (Mark 7:33 and 8:23)
- Where and what is Dalmanoutha? (Mark 8:10)
- Job 29 in Mark 9:1–29
- Subtext and Intertext in Mark 16:1—8
- Follow the feet (Luke 7:36–50)
- The Intercalated Splendor of Luke’s Conversation with Aratos
- Letters, the Writing, and the Rock in John 7
- The Beloved Disciple, Judas Iscariot
- Postscript
- The Johannine Paraclete as an Index of Sorts
- Intercalated ἱλαστήριον/ Mercy Seat in John 19:13, 14
- Šemeš at the cross of Jesus (John 19:29)
- Afterword
- Bibliography