Explore Biblical Intertextuality
... the connections between the literature of the Ancient Near East, Hebrew Bible, Samaritans, Septuagint, Deuterocanon, Dead Sea Scrolls, Classics, New Testament, Targums, Rabbinics, and early Christians.
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Synchronic and Diachronic Reading
Ways of Making Sense of Complex Literary Relationships
Reading involves many choices and ways of approaching a text. Meaning can come from how a text works as a whole in its present form and from how it relates to other texts across time. These approaches often overlap, especially in common traditions, helping to shape how intertextual connections are recognized and interpreted.
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Nilsen, Tina Dykesteen Creation in Collision? Isaiah 40-48 and Zoroastrianism, Babylonian Religion and Genesis 1 Journal of Hebrew Scriptures Vol. 13, No. 8, 2013
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Feder, Yitzhaq Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Toorn, Karel van der Sin and Sanction in Israel and Mesopotamia: A Comparative Study Van Gorcum, 1985
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Cranz, Isabel Atonement and Purification: Priestly and Assyro-Babylonian Perspectives on Sin and Its Consequences Mohr Siebeck, 2017
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Nickelsburg, George W. E. A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch Chapters 1-36, 81-108 Fortress Press, 2001
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