Product Description
by Max J. Lee (Editor), B. J. Oropeza (Editor)
Practicing Intertextuality attempts something bold and ambitious: to map both the interactions and intertextual techniques used by New Testament authors as they engaged the Old Testament and the discourses of their fellow Jewish and Greco-Roman contemporaries. This collection of essays functions collectively as a handbook describing the relationship between ancient authors, their texts, and audience capacity to detect allusions and echoes. Aimed for biblical studies majors, graduate and seminary students, and academics, the book catalogues how New Testament authors used the very process of interacting with their Scriptures (that is, the Masoretic Text, the Septuagint, and their variants) and the texts of their immediate environment (including popular literary works, treatises, rhetorical handbooks, papyri, inscriptions, artifacts, and graffiti) for the very production of their message. Each chapter demonstrates a type of interaction (that is, doctrinal reformulations, common ancient ethical and religious usage, refutation, irenic appropriation, and competitive appropriation), describes the intertextual technique(s) employed by the ancient author, and explains how these were practiced in Jewish, Greco-Roman, or early Christian circles. Seventeen scholars, each an expert in their respective fields, have contributed studies which illuminate the biblical interpretation of the Gospels, the Pauline letters, and General Epistles through the process of intertextuality.
Author Biography
Max J. Lee is Professor of New Testament at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind (2020). He has served as a co-chair (2014-20) and steering committee member (2008-20) of the Intertextuality in the New Testament Section at the Society of Biblical Literature. His interests include Paul in the Greco-Roman world, ancient philosophy, diaspora Judaism, and intercultural readings of the Bible.
B. J. Oropeza is Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Azusa Pacific University and Seminary in Azusa, California. He is author and editor of numerous publications, including New Studies in Textual Interplay (2020), Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in 1 Corinthians (2019), and Exploring Intertextuality (2016). He founded the Intertextuality in the New Testament Section at the Society of Biblical Literature. His interests include new and post-new perspectives on Paul, Romans, and intertextual studies.
