Searching the Scriptures: Studies in Context and Intertextuality (The Library of New Testament Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0567683117 ISBN 13: 9780567683113

Publisher: T&T Clark, 2018

Synopsis

This work critically engages the hermeneutical methods used to analyse the New Testament writings, so that the lenses through which studies of the texts have been traditionally viewed can be revised. Jeremy Hultin contributes an article on the rhetorical use of the chosen citations by Jewish rabbis in their commentary on scripture, while Mark Gignilliat writes on the potential implications for viewing Old Testament Scripture in the manner of the early Church exegetes and theologians. With these two contributions providing a frame for the other chapters, the essays explore a range of topics including the significance of the number 42 in Matthew; the study of Wisdom in Matthew, the extent to which the four gospels are underlined by Hebrew material, if any; the use of Hebrew material in shaping New Testament writings; and the uses of Scripture in the letters of Paul and the letters to the Hebrews.

Read separately, these articles provide fascinating insights and revisions to established ideas on intertextuality between the Old/Hebrew Bible and the New Testament writings. Taken together, the collection presents a solid argument for the fundamental revision of our current hermeneutical practice in Biblical Studies.

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About the Authors

Craig A. Evans (Ph.D., Claremont) is John Bisagno Distinguished professor of Christian Origins at Houston Baptist University, USA.

Jeremiah J. Johnston is the president of Christian Thinkers Society, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0567683117
• ISBN 13: 9780567683113
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 372
• Editor: Evans Craig A., Johnston Jeremiah J.