The Search for Quotation
Verbal Parallels in the Prophets
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1997
400 pages
978-0-567-16395-0 (ISBN)
Description
A thorough study of quotation within ancient and modern literatures is the background for this new approach to alleged quotations within the prophetic writings. The common claim that specific verbal parallels result from the conscious repetition of the words of a predecessor is beset by difficulties. After examining quotation in non-prophetic (ancient Near Eastern, early Jewish, Old Testament wisdom and narrative, and modern Western) literatures, Schultz proposes a new model for interpreting verbal parallels that utilizes several criteria for identifying quotation and combines diachronic with synchronic analysis. He then applies this model to five representative verbal parallels involving the book of Isaiah. This book illustrates how an awareness of the versatility of quotation facilitates a more accurate interpretation of verbal parallels, and at the same time calls for greater caution in employing them in support of various theories.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-0-567-16395-0 (9780567163950)
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Richard Schultz is the Armerding Chair of Biblical Studies and Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I: THE STUDY OF PROPHETIC QUOTATION
- Chapter 1 PROPHECY AND QUOTATION IN OLD TESTAMENT RESEARCH
- Early Studies
- Affinities between Prophetic Books
- Affinities between Sections of the Book of Isaiah
- Tradition-Historical Approaches
- The Current State of the Discussion
- Chapter 2 THE ASSESSMENT OF PROPHETIC QUOTATION
- The Dating of the Literature
- The Process of Textual Transmission
- The Influence of Prophetic 'Schools'
- The Beginnings of Exegesis
- The Struggle for Authority
- The Growth of the Canon
- Problematic Assumptions
- The Need for a New Approach
- Part II: QUOTATION IN NON-PROPHETIC LITERATURES
- Chapter 3 QUOTATION IN ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN LITERATURE
- Quotation in Egyptian Literature
- Quotation in Mesopotamian Literature
- Quotation in Ugaritic Literature
- Assessment
- Chapter 4 QUOTATION IN EARLY JUDAISM
- Quotation in the Traditional Apocrypha: Sirach
- Quotation in the Qumran Scrolls: The Hodayoth
- Assessment
- Chapter 5 QUOTATIONS OF PROVERBIAL SAYINGS AND OTHER SPEAKERS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
- Chapter 6 QUOTATION IN WESTERN LITERATURE
- Terminology and Definitions
- Models of Imitation
- The Motives, Types and Functions of Quotation
- The Poetics of Quotation: The Contribution of Semiotics
- Literary Quotation as a Form of Reported Discourse
- Assessment
- Part III: A NEW APPROACH TO PROPHETIC QUOTATION
- Chapter 7 PROPHETIC QUOTATION: METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS TOWARD A NEW APPROACH
- The Basis for a New Approach
- The Problem of Terminology
- A New Model
- Chapter 8 THE ANALYSIS OF PROPHETIC QUOTATION
- Isaiah 11.6-9 and 65.25
- Isaiah 8.15 and 28.13
- Isaiah 40.3, 10
- 57.14
- and 62.10-11
- Isaiah 2.2-4 and Micah 4.1-3
- Isaiah 15-16 and Jeremiah 48
- Chapter 9 CONCLUSION: PROPHETIC QUOTATION-PROBLEMS, PERSPECTIVES, PROSPECTS
- Problems
- New Perspectives
- Prospects
- Appendix: Verbal Parallels in the Book of Isaiah
- Bibliography
- Index of References
- Index of Authors
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