Matthew's new David at the end of exile : a socio-rhetorical study of scriptural quotations /
Matthew crowds more Old Testament quotations and allusions into the prologue than anywhere else in his gospel. In this volume, Nicholas G. Piotrowski demonstrates the narratological and rhetorical effects of such frontloading. Particularly, seven formula-quotations constellate to establish a redempt...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2016]
Series:
Novum Testamentum, Supplements
170.
Novum Testamentum Supplements Online, Supplement 2017, ISBN: 9789004324404.
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Call Number: BS2575.52 .P57 2016
| Summary: | Matthew crowds more Old Testament quotations and allusions into the prologue than anywhere else in his gospel. In this volume, Nicholas G. Piotrowski demonstrates the narratological and rhetorical effects of such frontloading. Particularly, seven formula-quotations constellate to establish a redemptive-historical setting inside of which the rest of the narrative operates. This setting is defined by Old Testament expectations for David's great son to end Israel's exile and rule the nations. Piotrowski contends that the rhetorical effect of this intertextual storytelling was to provide the Matthean community with an identity-in a contentious atmosphere-in terms of God's historical design for the ages, now fulfilled in Jesus and his followers. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 315 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789004326880 |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |