Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments

Malachi as a Test Case

Sheree Lear

• Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Jahr: 2017
• ISBN drucken: 9783525552667
• eBook-ISBN: 9783647552668
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Theology & Religion
• Thema: Christian Theology

The Hebrew Bible is the product of scribes. Whether copying, editing, conflating, adapting, or authoring, these ancient professionals were responsible for the various text designs, constructions and text-types that we have today. Sheree Lear seeks to investigate the many practices employed by ancient scribes in literary production, or, more aptly, scribal composition. Using Malachi as a test-case, three autonomous yet complementary chapters will illustrate how investigating the text as the product of scribal composition can yield new and important insights. Chapter 2: Mal 2.10-16 focuses on a particularly difficult portion of Malachi (2.10-16), noting patterns amongst the texts reused in the pericope. These patterns give information about the ancient scribe's view of scripture and about his communicative goal. Chapter 3: Wordplay surveys Malachi for the implementation of different types of the wordplay. The chapter demonstrates how a poetic feature such as wordplay, generally treated as a synchronic element, can also have diachronic implications. Chapter 4: Phinehas, he is Elijah investigates the reception of Malachi as a finished text. By tracing backwards a tradition found throughout later Jewish literature, it is evident that the literary techniques employed by the composer made his text successfully communicative.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Malachi 2:10–16
• Chapter 3: Wordplay in Malachi
• Chapter 4: Phinehas, he is Elijah
• Chapter 5: Conclusion
• Appendix A
• Appendix B: The Use of Genesis 31–33 in Malachi
• Bibliography
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Biblical References