The Intertexture of Apocalyptic Discourse in the New Testament (SBL - Symposium) (Sbl - Symposium, 14)

ISBN 10: 9004127062 ISBN 13: 9789004127067

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2002

The essays in this volume identify apocalyptic discourse in the New Testament and examine its intertexture, that is, what the apocalyptic discourse represents, refers to, and uses of phenomena outside itself. Intertexture includes references in the Hebrew Bible, intertestamental texts, and Greco-Roman literature, as well as related social and cultural phenomena. Contributors identify the biblical writer's selection and use of the intertextural references in argumentative strategies in apocalyptic discourse. They identify topics and argumentation that might be distinctive to apocalyptic discourse, refining the definition of the apocalyptic genre and determining more precisely the social and cultural placement of early Christianity. This volume arises out of a special session of the Rhetoric and the New Testament Section of the Society of Biblical Literature 1999 Annual Meeting. The contributors to the volume are include L. Gregory Bloomquist, David A. deSilva, James D. Hester, Edith M. Humphrey, B. J. Oropeza, Vernon K. Robbins, Russell B. Sisson, Wesley Hiram Wachob, and Duane F. Watson. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).

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Synopsis

This work identifies apocalyptic discourse in the New Testament and examines its intertexture - what the apocalyptic discourse represents, refers to, and uses of phenomena outside itself. It also identifies topics and argumentation that might be distinctive to apocalyptic discourse.

About the Author

Duane F. Watson (PhD, Duke University) is professor of New Testament studies at Malone College in Canton, Ohio, and is the editor of several books, including Reading Second Peter with New Eyes.

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