Exploring Intertextuality

by B J Oropeza (Editor), Steve Moyise (Editor)

Overview

This book aims to provide advanced students of biblical studies, seminarians, and academicians with a variety of intertextual strategies to New Testament interpretation. Each chapter is written by a New Testament scholar who provides an established or avant-garde strategy in which: 1) The authors in their respective chapters start with an explanation of the particular intertextual approach they use. Important terms and concepts relevant to the approach are defined, and scholarly proponents or precursors are discussed. 2) The authors use their respective intertextual strategy on a sample text or texts from the New Testament, whether from the Gospels, Acts, Pauline epistles, Disputed Pauline epistles, General epistles, or Revelation. 3) The authors show how their approach enlightens or otherwise brings the text into sharper relief. 4) They end with recommended readings for further study on the respective intertextual approach. This book is unique in providing a variety of strategies related to biblical interpretation through the lens of intertextuality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498223119
Publisher:	Cascade Books
Publication date:	09/20/2016
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

B. J. Oropeza (PhD, University of Durham) is the founder of the Intertextuality in the New Testament Section of the Society of Biblical Literature. He is Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Azusa Pacific University and is an internationally published author whose many works include the subjects of Pauline studies, Corinthian correspondence, intertextuality, sociorhetorical criticism, and a three-volume monograph series titled Apostasy in the New Testament Communities. He is a member of the Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity.
 
Steve Moyise is Visiting Professor at Newman University, Birmingham, UK, and author of Was the Birth of Jesus according to Scripture? (Cascade, 2013); the trilogy Paul and Scripture, Jesus and Scripture, and The Later New Testament Writings and Scripture (2010-12); and Evoking Scripture: Hearing the Old Testament in the New (2008).

Table of Contents

Contributors vii

Abbreviations x

Introduction: Diverse Strategies for Intertextual Interpretation xiii

Part I Established Strategies

1 Dialogical Intertextuality Steve Moyise 3

2 Hypertextuality Gil Rosenberg 16

3 Metalepsis Jeanninc K. Brown 29

4 Rhetoric of Quotations Christopher D. Stanley 42

5 Midrash Lori Baron B. J. Oropeza 63

6 Shadows and Realities Kenneth L. Schenck 81

7 Mimesis Dennis R. MacDonald 93

8 Poststructural Intertextuality Gary A. Phillips 106

9 Intertextuality Based on Categorical Semiotics Stefan Alkier 128

Part II Eclectic and Novel Strategies

10 Sociorhetorical Intertexture Roy R. Jeal 151

11 Narrative Transformation J. R. Daniel Kirk 165

12 Orality and Intertextuality James F. McGrath 176

13 Enunciation, Personification, and Intertextuality Alain Gignac 187

14 Relevance Theory and Intertextuality Peter S. Perry 207

15 Multidimensional Intertextuality Erik Waaler 222

16 Reference-Text-Oriented Allusions Korinna Zamfir Joseph Verheyden 242

17 Probability of Intertextual Borrowing Elizabeth A. Myers 254

Bibliography 273

Author Index 301

Biblical and Ancient Literature Index 307

Subject Index 321

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Just when you think you understand intertextuality, a volume like this comes along that reveals just how much you have yet to learn! This is an amazing array of essays that relate intertextuality to many other methods and perspectives, from semiotics to sociorhetorical, midrash to mimesis. This collection clearly explains and carefully illustrates—using sample texts—all that intertextuality has to offer the biblical interpreter. It pushes the boundaries of our understanding in many directions you will want to explore."   
—Duane F. Watson, Professor of New Testament Studies, Malone University

"Truly an abundant feast for anyone from general reader to advanced scholar. A deeply savored display of intertextuality from traditional and nontraditional literary approaches to twenty-first-century strategies that negotiate rhetoric, linguistics, orality, and post-structuralism. A rich menu of clear definition and discussion of key theoretical reasoning fortified with well-developed interpretation of specific texts. Rare indeed will be persons who feel there was nothing on the menu for them in this volume."
— Vernon K. Robbins, Professor of New Testament and Comparative Sacred Texts, Emory University

Editorial Reviews

"Just when you think you understand intertextuality, a volume like this comes along that reveals just how much you have yet to learn! This is an amazing array of essays that relate intertextuality to many other methods and perspectives, from semiotics to sociorhetorical, midrash to mimesis. This collection clearly explains and carefully illustrates—using sample texts—all that intertextuality has to offer the biblical interpreter. It pushes the boundaries of our understanding in many directions you will want to explore."   
—Duane F. Watson, Professor of New Testament Studies, Malone University

"Truly an abundant feast for anyone from general reader to advanced scholar. A deeply savored display of intertextuality from traditional and nontraditional literary approaches to twenty-first-century strategies that negotiate rhetoric, linguistics, orality, and post-structuralism. A rich menu of clear definition and discussion of key theoretical reasoning fortified with well-developed interpretation of specific texts. Rare indeed will be persons who feel there was nothing on the menu for them in this volume."
— Vernon K. Robbins, Professor of New Testament and Comparative Sacred Texts, Emory University

From the Publisher