Early Christian Literature and Intertextuality

Volume 1: Thematic Studies

Craig A. Evans, H. Daniel Zacharias, Craig A. Evans, H. Daniel Zacharias

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9780567692016
• eBook ISBN: 9780567138217
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

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. [Part of the LNTS sub series Studies in Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity (SSEJC), volume 14]

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Preface
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• 1. The Evolution of Genre in the Hebrew Anthology
• 2. Concepts of Scripture In1 Maccabees
• 3. A Jewish Canon Before 100 BCE: Israel’s Law in the Book of Aristeas
• 4. Ben Sira and Papyrus Insinger
• 5. Refractions of Daniel in the Gospel of Matthew
• 6. Diarchic Symbolism in Matthew’s Procession Narrative: A Dead Sea Scrolls Perspective
• 7. Allusion to and Expansion of the Tree of Life and Garden of Eden in Biblical and Pseudepigraphal Literature
• 8. Aseneth as the ‘Type of the Church of the Gentiles’
• 9. Beyond Revealed Wisdom and Apocalyptic Epistemology: Early Christian Transformations of Enochic Traditions About Knowledge
• 10. The Influence of the Septuagint on the New Testament: Toward a More Objective Assessment
• 11. How Does Paul Read Scripture?
• 12. The Crises at Corinth and Paul’s Use of Numbers in 1 Corinthians
• 13. From Ruler to Teacher: the Extending of the Shepherd Metaphor in Early Jewish and Christian Writings
• 14. The Nuptial Imagery of Christ and the Church in Augustine’s Enarrationes in Psalmos
• Bibliography
• Index of References
• Index of Authors