Early Christian Literature and Intertextuality: Volume 2: Exegetical Studies

Scholarly interest in intertextuality remains as keen as ever. Armed with new questions, interpreters seek to improve their understanding of 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.

• Table of contents
• Introduction - C. A. Evans and H. D. Zacharias
• A New View on the Relation between Septuagint and Masoretic Text in the Story of David and Goliath - Jan-Wim Wesselius
• A Case of Psychological Dualism: Philo's Interpretation of the Instruction of the Two Spirits in QEx I 23 - Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer
• Jesus' Jewish Hermeneutical Method in the Nazareth Synagogue - R. Steven Notley
• The Magnificat among the Biblical Inset Psalms - Scot Becker
• Can a Lawyer Understand Mercy: Luke's Use of Scripture in the Parable of the Good Samaritan - Nathan Lane
• Psalm 2 and the Son of God in the Fourth Gospel - Steven Nash
• Joel 3:1-5 in Acts 2:17-21: The Discourse and Text-Critical Implications of Quotation and Variation from the Septuagint - Steven Runge
• Genesis 1-3 and Conceptions of Humankind in 4QInstruction, Philo and Paul - Matthew Goff
• Why Can't 'The One Who Does These Thing Live by Them'?: Paul's Use of Leviticus 18:5 in Galatians 3:12 - Preston Sprinkle
• Surrogate, Slave, and Deviant? 'Hagar' in Jewish Interpretive Traditions and Paul's Use of the Figure in Galatians 4:21-31 - Troy A. Miller
• Sarah's Presence in the New Testament: Comparing Galatians 4 and 1 Peter 3 - Jeremy Punt
• 1 Peter, the Septuagint, and the Eschatological Davidic Shepherd - Kelly David Liebengood
• 'I will give authority over the nations': Psalm 2:8-9 in Revelation 2:26c-27 - Tze-Ming Quek
• Exegesis of Isaiah 11:2 in Aphrahat the Persian Sage - Bogdan Bucur