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REWRITING PETER AS AN INTERTEXTUAL CHARACTER IN THE CANONICAL GOSPELS Peter is a fascinating character in all four canonical gospels, not only as a literary figure in each of the gospels respectively, but also when looked at from an intertextual perspective. This book examines how Peter is rewritten for each of the gospels, positing that the differing portrayals of this crucial figurereflectnot only thetheological priorities ofeach gospelauthor,butalso their attitude towards their predecessors. Rewriting Peter as an Intertextual Character in the Canonical Gospels is the first critical study of the canonical gospelswhichisbasedonMarkan priority,Luke’suseofMarkand Matthew, and John’s use of all three synoptic gospels. Through a selection of close read- ings, Damgaard both provides a new critical portrait of Peter and proposes a new theoryof source and redaction in the gospels. In the last thirty years there has been an increasing appreciation of the gospels’ literary design and of the gospel writers as authors and innovators rather than merely compilers and transmitters. However, literary critics have tended to read each gospel individually as if they were written for isolated communities. This book reconsiders the relationship between the gospels, arguing that the works were composed for a general audience and that the writers were bold and creative interpreters of the tradition they inherited from earliergospelsources.Damgaard’sviewthatthegospelauthorswerefamiliarwith theworkoftheirpredecessors,andthatthedivergencesbetweentheirnarratives were deliberate, sheds new light on their intentions and will have a lasting impact on our understanding of the gospels. FinnDamgaardwasapost-docintheBiblicalStudiesDepartment,Facultyof Theology, University of Copenhagen. He is now a minister in the Danish Church. He is the author of Recasting Moses (2013). COPENHAGEN INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR General Editors: Ingrid Hjelm and Thomas L. Thompson both at the University of Copenhagen Editors: Niels Peter Lemche and Mogens Müller, both at the University of Copenhagen Language Revision Editor: James West at the Quartz Hill School of Theology Available: JAPHETH BEN ALI’S BOOKOF JEREMIAH Joshua A. Sabih THE EMERGENCE OF ISRAEL IN ANCIENT PALESTINE Emanuel Pfoh ORIGIN MYTHS AND HOLY PLACES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spanò CHANGING PERSPECTIVES I John Van Seters ARGONAUTS OF THE DESERT Philippe Wajdenbaum THE EXPRESSION ‘SON OF MAN’ AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTOLOGY Mogens Müller BIBLICAL STUDIES AND THE FAILURE OF HISTORY Niels Peter Lemche BIBLICAL NARRATIVE AND PALESTINE’S HISTORY Thomas L. Thompson ‘IS THIS NOT THE CARPENTER?’ Edited by Thomas L. Thompson and Thomas S. Verenna THE BIBLE AND HELLENISM Edited by Thomas L. Thompson and Philippe Wajdenbaum RETHINKING BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP Philip R. Davies REPRESENTING ZION Frederik Poulsen MYTHS OF EXILE Edited by Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme and Ingrid Hjelm REWRITING PETER AS AN INTERTEXTUAL CHARACTER IN THE CANONICAL GOSPELS Finn Damgaard Forthcoming: SYRIA-PALESTINE IN THE LATE BRONZE AGE Emanuel Pfoh BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION BEYOND HISTORICITY Edited by Ingrid Hjelm and Thomas L. Thompson HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGYAND THE BIBLE FORTY YEARS AFTER “HISTORICITY” Edited by Ingrid Hjelm and Thomas L. Thompson THE JUDAEO-KARAITE RECEPTION OF THE HEBREW BIBLE Joshua A. Sabih This page intentionally left blank REWRITING PETER AS AN INTERTEXTUAL CHARACTER IN THE CANONICAL GOSPELS Finn Damgaard Add Add Add AddAddAdd Add AddAdd AdAddd Firstpublished2016 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©2016FinnDamgaard TherightofFinnDamgaardtobeidentifiedasauthorofthisworkhasbeen assertedbyhiminaccordancewithsections77and78oftheCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orin anyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwriting fromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksor registeredtrademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanation withoutintenttoinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Damgaard,Finn. RewritingPeterasanintertextualcharacterinthecanonicalgospels/ FinnDamgaard.--First[edition]. pagescm.--(Copenhageninternationalseminar) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1.Peter,theApostle,Saint--Biblicalteaching.2.Bible.Gospels--Criticism, interpretation,etc.I.Title. BS2515.D2552015 226’.092--dc23 2015016893 ISBN:978-1-138-92202-0(hbk) ISBN:978-1-315-68217-4(ebk) TypesetinTimesNewRoman byTaylor&FrancisBooks TO VERA, IRMA, ARTHUR, LAURITS AND GERTRUD This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Acknowledgement x Introduction 1 1 Rewriting a Paradigmatic Apostolic Portrayal: The Figure of Peter in the Gospel of Mark 13 2 Alienating Peter: The Figure of Peter in the Gospel of Matthew 37 3 Rehabilitating Peter: The Figure of Peter in the Gospel of Luke 57 4 Reinventing a Paradigmatic Disciple: The Figure of Peter in the Gospel of John 88 Conclusion 122 Appendix 127 Bibliography 129 Index 151 ix
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