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Community discussions and insights on intertextual connections

June 18, 2025

Samuel

"Wisdom was in the beginning with the Most High, Proverbs 8, Wisdom of Solomon 17, Enoch 42 and Sirach 1"

Thomas Renz

"Nicholas R. Werse, "Realigning the Cosmos: The intertextual image of judgment and restoration in Zephaniah," JSOT 45/1 (2020): 111-127, argues that "Zeph. 3:9-10 shares numerous literary links with the positive conclusions to the Cush and Egypt oracles in Isa. 18 and 19" (120), including the phrase..."

Thomas Renz

Jeremiah 19:8 / Zephaniah 2:15

"Nicholas R. Werse, "Realigning the Cosmos: The intertextual image of judgment and restoration in Zephaniah," JSOT 45/1 (2020): 111-127, notes that "How she has come to destruction" ("What a heap of ruins she has become") are also found in Jer 50:23 and 51:41."

Thomas Renz

Isaiah 47:8 / Zephaniah 2:15

"Also noted in Nicholas R. Werse, "Realigning the Cosmos: The intertextual image of judgment and restoration in Zephaniah," JSOT 45/1 (2020): 111-127, pp. 118-19."

Douglas

1QpHab 7 / Matthew 24:36

"What does 1QpHab 7 stand for? I gather Q = Qumran, and Hab = Habakkuk."

June 14, 2025

Thomas Renz

Isaiah 47:8 / Zephaniah 2:15

"Also noted in William L. Holladay, “Reading Zephaniah with a Concordance: Suggestions for a Redaction History,” JBL 120/4 (2001): 671–684, who suggests a few more parallels. Citing from the conclusion (p684): "With regard to the secondary poetic additions, there are two patterns to note. The first i..."

June 12, 2025

Guy

Isaiah 30:26 / 1 Enoch 72:37

"Check the story of Joshua when God stopped the sun and the noon, that the day was longer when he did so, and compare how can it be possible ..."

May 29, 2025

Mike

Genesis 11:4 / Genesis 28:12

"I've never noticed that before but it makes sense"

May 23, 2025

David

Jonathan Numbers 24:15 / Matthew 13:17

"The targums are great and really do highlight a lot of things that otherwise are difficult to understand in the New Testament"

May 17, 2025

Anonymous

1 Enoch 76:1 / Revelation 7:1

"The commentator alludes to Enoch being the only mortal man this cannot be because we know the Bible tells us that Yeshua the Messiah was in fact a mortal man born of a virgin raised and died the Bible clearly states that no one has ever seen God therefore a lot of these things regarding God In the F..."

May 16, 2025

Svet Jonry

Tobit 12:16 / Revelation 1:17

"Interesting!"

Folkers

Deuteronomy 32:8 / 4Q37 32:8

"Source on the DSS is incorrect?"

April 29, 2025

Eddie Cochran

1 Enoch 19:1 / 1 Corinthians 10:20

"Why was the book of Enoch removed, and what color race was the world in the beginning, and was there ever mermaids and half man and animals, freakish creatures?"