The Text in the Middle

206 Pages·2014·0.762 MB·English

by  Michael B. Shepherd

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The Text
Analysis of inner-biblical exegesis ordinarily involves examina-
tion of the intertextual relationship between two texts within the S
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biblical corpus. But in many cases there is an often overlooked inter-
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text that serves as a bridge between the two texts. Such an inter- P Middle
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mediary text reads the primary text in a manner similar to the way IN THE
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the tertiary text reads it and supplies a missing link in a very sub- R
tle yet identifiable manner. The direction of dependence between D
texts of this kind is not as important in the present study as the direc-
tion in which these texts were meant to be read by those who gave
them their final shape.
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MICHAEL B. SHEPHERD received his Ph.D. in Old Testament
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he is Associate Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew and
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Holder of the John and Allie Fogleman Professorship in Religion

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at Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana. His previous works h
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include multiple peer-reviewed journal articles as well as the fol- e

lowing books published by Peter Lang: The Verbal System of M
Biblical Aramaic: A Distributional Approach, Daniel in the Con- i
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text of the Hebrew Bible, The Twelve Prophets in the New Testa- d
ment,and The Textual World of the Bible. l
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The Text
Analysis of inner-biblical exegesis ordinarily involves examina-
tion of the intertextual relationship between two texts within the S
H
biblical corpus. But in many cases there is an often overlooked inter-
E
text that serves as a bridge between the two texts. Such an inter- P Middle
H
mediary text reads the primary text in a manner similar to the way IN THE
E
the tertiary text reads it and supplies a missing link in a very sub- R
tle yet identifiable manner. The direction of dependence between D
texts of this kind is not as important in the present study as the direc-
tion in which these texts were meant to be read by those who gave
them their final shape.
T
h
e

T
MICHAEL B. SHEPHERD received his Ph.D. in Old Testament
e
Studies from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Currently, x
t
he is Associate Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew and
i
n
Holder of the John and Allie Fogleman Professorship in Religion

t
at Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana. His previous works h
M I C H A E L B . S H E P H E R D
include multiple peer-reviewed journal articles as well as the fol- e

lowing books published by Peter Lang: The Verbal System of M
Biblical Aramaic: A Distributional Approach, Daniel in the Con- i
d
text of the Hebrew Bible, The Twelve Prophets in the New Testa- d
ment,and The Textual World of the Bible. l
e
P
E
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N
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The Text Middle
IN THE
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The text in the middle / Michael B. Shepherd.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Intertextuality in the Bible. 2. Bible. Old Testament—
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table of contents
Series Editor’s Preface ix
Introduction 1
Chapter One: Citation from the Pentateuch (Genesis) 7
Chapter Two: Citation from the Pentateuch (Exodus–Deuteronomy) 57
Chapter Three: Citation from the Prophets 107
Chapter Four: Citation from the Writings 161
Bibliography 179
Scripture Index 187