įor Kristeva, texts are dynamic sites at which relational processes and practices converge. Bakhtin’s notion of all utterances as double voiced (that is, responding to an addressee and a cultural milieu), Julia Kristeva coined the term “intertextuality,” arguing that all texts are simultaneously in conversation with their audiences and their surrounding sociohistorical environments through the recycling of earlier texts. Although scholars now recognize the practice of intertextuality in literature as ancient as Plato’s Socratic dialogues, the term “intertextuality” itself is only several decades old. Intertextuality is more than exploring how writers cite other sources, but also why such citations were made and the effect of those intertexts. The phenomenon of intertextuality involves the imbedding of portions of one earlier text within a later text. David M.This post is part of an ongoing series formulating a methodology for tracking and understanding the variety of ways in which early Christians received and utilized Scripture. Written in a lively, semipopular style, this important study succeeds in showing that Paul’s scriptural quotations and allusions are often more ’polyphonic’ and rhetorically meaningful than traditional exegesis has allowed. Dunn, forthcoming in Literature and Theology A fresh interpretation of Paul’s references to the Jewish Scriptures.
A major contribution both to Pauline studies and to our understanding of earliest Christian theology as a living dialogue with the scriptures of Israel. challenges not a few traditional or highly regarded readings. Hans Hübner, Theologische Literaturzeitung A powerful reading. A new beginning for the question concerning the reception of the Old Testament in the New.
Stockenhausen, Journal of Biblical Literature Hays has without doubt posed the right question at the right time within the horizon of a particularly important problematic.
It is sophisticated, in both a literary and theological sense, and written with considerable wit and confidence.
Hays’s study will be a work to use and to reckon with for every Pauline scholar and for every student of Paul’s use of Old Testament traditions.
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