New PDF release: Semeia 69-70: Intertextuality and the Bible

By George Aichele, Gary A. Phillips

The purpose of this quantity of "Semeia" is to discover the problem of intertextuality, which has lately received broad and ranging awareness in particular inside of comparative literature and cultural feedback circles and between an increasing number of biblical students of fairly varied stripes. Set over opposed to a conventional, restrictive idea of "literary influence," intertextuality has emerged as a fertile idea that, for lots of students, has multiplied the methods of accounting for the complicated dating of texts to texts, to interpretive traditions, to writers and readers, and to institutional contexts. Intertextuality serves as a serious gateway that opens out onto concerns of ideology, subjectivity, the cloth creation of that means, and responsibility. just like the heavily similar "concepts" of narrative, style, and linguistic constitution, the which means of intertextuality isn't really univocal; it acquires various nuances and meanings within the fingers of alternative readers of literature and tradition. So it's the case during this quantity. Our goal here's to situate the variety of makes use of that the concept that at the moment enjoys inside literary severe circles specially, to provide the efforts of definite biblical critics who draw from those various assets, and to discover the level in their special software within the examining and rewriting of biblical texts. This quantity gathers jointly essays that spotlight upon historic, theoretical, and utilized matters. Our cause isn't to be exhaustive yet illustrative; i.e., to reveal the variety of understandings, techniques, readers, and texts addressing this factor as a mirrored image of the various scenario inside of religious study itself.

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The setting in Isaiah is the perplexing event of the exile. In that set ting, Isaiah plays two constructs of world off against each other—the world of idolatry and the world of the God of Israel. The setting in Luke is the baffling event of the crucifixion of God's messiah. In that setting, Luke-Acts plays the carnivalesque construct of world off against another construct mediated by Jesus. But it is especially the Lucan plot that evokes the Isaianic context. Hays's criterion of availability strengthens the case.

Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press. Morgenstern, J. 1963 The Fire Upon the Altar. Chicago: Quadrangle Books. Petuchowski, Jakob J. 1978 Theology and Poetry: Studies in the Medieval Piyyut. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. RESISTANCE TO THE CARNIVALIZATION OF JESUS: 1 SCRIPTURE IN THE LUCAN PASSION NARRATIVE Robert L. Brazvley McCormick Theological Seminary EARLY ON, LUKE TIES KNOWING το BEARING FRUIT. By a norm that Jesus himself establishes, trees are known by their fruit (Luke 6:44). John adds a prior qualification that the tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and consumed by fire (3:9), and further, that Jesus will gather the fruit of the harvest and sift the chaff into an unquenchable fire (3:17).

21 According to Minear, the apostles are confused and x 7 This is not an exclusively christological interpretation. The text could also be fulfilled in others. *° Bloom, i982b:passim. Cf. Bloom 1975b: 112. 1 9 An ungrammaticality is a feature of the text that resists interpretation on a lit eral level and drives it to a figurative level (Riffaterre, 1983:51). 20 This is part of Conzelmann's well-known thesis that Luke-Acts divides time into three major epochs. 21 Cf. Neyrey. Contra Minear, see Marshall: 826.

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