A Recent Book by Richard Hays

Reading the Bible Intertextually by Richard hays and Stephan Alkier

 

Review
As recent scholarship has shown, no text is an island. Meaning is dependent on establishing precisely how one text is to be related to others and what text will legitimately count as a basis of intertextual conversation. This volume presents a wide range of options on this important question and will provide important grist for the mill for those interested in biblical hermeneutics. –Gary A. Anderson, Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, University of Notre Dame

As recent scholarship has shown, no text is an island. Meaning is dependent on establishing precisely how one text is to be related to others and what text will legitimately count as a basis of intertextual conversation. This volume presents a wide range of options on this important question and will provide important grist for the mill for those interested in biblical hermeneutics. –Gary A. Anderson, Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, University of Notre Dame<br /><br />The problem of the use of the Old Testament among New Testament writers is as tangled and knotty as it is perennial. Pushing beyond the simple equation “one text, one meaning,” this collection of essays invigorates the discussion with methodological rigor, notable readings of biblical texts, and engaging extensions of these fresh interpretive proposals beyond the biblical canon itself. –Joel B. Green, Professor of New Testament Interpretation, Fuller Theological Seminary<br /><br />This welcome collection of essays marks a noteworthy contribution to the study of intertextual dimensions of biblical interpretation. While conventional criticism focuses on quotations and direct allusion, these essays advance the convincing case that biblical authors can be understood more soundly, more richly, by attending to the elusive intertextual resonances that affect the texts they composed. Readers sensitive to intertextual effects will applaud these essays both for their theoretical exploration and for the interpretations that the essays venture. –A. K. M. Adamb, Professor of New Testament, Bowdoin College

This welcome collection of essays marks a noteworthy contribution to the study of intertextual dimensions of biblical interpretation. While conventional criticism focuses on quotations and direct allusion, these essays advance the convincing case that biblical authors can be understood more soundly, more richly, by attending to the elusive intertextual resonances that affect the texts they composed. Readers sensitive to intertextual effects will applaud these essays both for their theoretical exploration and for the interpretations that the essays venture. –A. K. M. Adamb, Professor of New Testament, Bowdoin College

Product Description
Reading the Bible Intertextually explores the revisionary hermeneutical practices of the writers of the four gospels. Each of the contributors examines the distinctive ways that the canonical evangelists put a particular “spin” on the story of Jesus through rereading the Old Testament in different ways. In addition, the evangelists’ different ways of reading Israel’s Scripture are correlated with different visions for the embodied life of the community of Jesus’ followers. This is an exciting new reading of the gospels, bringing interdisciplinary and intertextual readings to the texts, articulated by some of the most brilliant New Testament scholars of our time.