The new Isaac : tradition and intertextuality in the Gospel of Matthew / by Leroy A. Huizenga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huizenga, Leroy A., 1974-

Series:

Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 131.

Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 0167-9732 ; v. 131

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Matthew--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Matthew.

Intertextuality in the Bible.

Isaac (Biblical patriarch).

Isaac.

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible. Old Testament.

Physical Description:

xx, 337 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Summary:

Gospel scholarship has long recognized that Matthean Christology is a rich, multifaceted tapestry weaving multifold Old Testment figures together in the person of Jesus. It is somewhat strange, therefore, that scholarship has found little role for the figure of Isaac in the Gospel of Matthew. Employing Umberto Eco's theory of the Model Reader as a theoretical basis to ground the phenomenon of Matthean intertextuality, this work contends that when read rightly as a coherent narrative in its first-century setting, with proper attention to both biblical texts and extrabiblical traditions about Isaac, the Gospel of Matthew evinces a significant Isaac typology in service of presenting Jesus as new temple and decisive sacrifice.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Fate of the Figure of Isaac in the Gospel of Matthew 1

1.1 Traces of Isaac in the Gospel of Matthew 1

1.2 Four Reasons for the Neglect of Isaac in the Gospel of Matthew 2

1.2.1 Redaction Criticism and the Neglect of Narrative Dynamics 2

1.2.2 The Influence of the MT Canon and the Neglect of Extrabiblical Texts and Traditions 9

1.2.3 Debating Definitions and the Dating of the Akedah 14

1.2.4 The Lure of the Formula Quotations and the Neglect of Matthean Allusions 18

1.3 Summary 20

Chapter 2 The Model Reader, the Encylopedia and Textual Intention 21

2.1 Umberto Eco: Open Works and Model Readers 21

2.2 The Encyclopedia as Cultural Treasury 24

2.2.1 Dictionaries vs. Encyclopedias 24

2.2.2 The Dictionary as Porphyrian Tree 25

2.2.3 The Encyclopedia as Labyrinth 27

2.3 The Model Reader and the Intention of the Text 29

2.3.1 What the Model Reader Is: The Dialectical Relationship of Text and Encyclopedia 30

2.3.2 What the Model Reader Does: The Process of Reading 33

2.4 Summary 41

Chapter 3 The Model Reader, Intertextuality and Biblical Studies 43

3.1 Introduction to Intertextuality 43

3.2 The Implications of Intertextuality: Politics, Play and Biblical Studies 45

3.2.1 Origins and Political Implications 45

3.2.2 From Politics to Play 49

3.2.3 Criticism of the Use of Intertextuality in Biblical Studies 51

3.3 Eco and Intertextuality 53

3.4 Criteria for Perceiving Intertexts 58

3.4.1 Richard Hays's Criteria and Echoes of Scripture 58

3.4.2 Hays's Criteria Revised: Echoes of Scripture and Tradition 63

3.5 Summary 71

Chapter 4 The Akedah Prior to the Common Era 75

4.1 The Akedah: Debates, Distortions, Definitions and Dating 75

4.2 Gen 22 MT 77

4.3 Gen 22 LXX 79

4.4 2 Chronicles 82

4.5 Jubilees 83

4.6 4Q225 ('Pseudo-Jubilees a ') 88

4.6.1 An Active and Willing Isaac 89

4.6.2 Passover/Exodus Connections 91

4.6.3 Soteriological Implications? 92

4.7 Judith 93

4.8 Summary 95

Chapter 5 The Akedah in the First Century of the Common Era 97

5.1 Philo 97

5.1.1 Texts Apart from De Abrahamo 98

5.1.2 De Abrahamo 102

5.2 Pseudo-Philo's Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum (L.A.B.) 104

5.2.1 Dating L.A.B 104

5.2.2 Balaam's Divine Encounter 106

5.2.3 Deborah's Song 107

5.2.4 Seila's Sacrifice 112

5.2.5 Summary: The Akedah in L.A.B 114

5.3 4 Maccabees 115

5.3.1 Dating 4 Maccabees 115

5.3.2 The Akedah as Intertextual Resource in 4 Maccabees 117

5.3.3 Summary: The Akedah in 4 Maccabees 122

5.4 Josephus Antiquities 123

5.5 1 Clement 126

5.6 Summary 127

Chapter 6 The Figure of Isaac in the First Chapter of the Gospel of Matthew 129

6.1 Matthean Preliminaries 129

6.2 Matt 1:1: "Son of Abraham" 139

6.3 Matt 1:2-17: The Matthean Genealogy 143

6.4 Matt 1:18-25: The Extraordinary Conceptions of Two Promised Children 144

6.5 Summary 151

Chapter 7 The Baptism of God's Beloved Son 153

7.1 Verbal Correspondence: The Intertextual Disposition of the Heavenly Voice 153

7.1.1 Verbal Correspondence between Matt 3:17 and Gen 22:2, 11-12, 15-16 153

7.1.2 The Critical Consensus on the Intertextual Disposition of the Heavenly Voice: Ps 2:7 and Isa 42:l 156

7.1.3 The Model Reader's Preliminary Conclusions 167

7.2 Thematic Coherence: Echoes of the Akedah Produced by the Allusion 169

7.2.1 Threat, Obedience, Righteousness 169

7.2.2 The Testing Narrative: Obedience and Cross 175

7.2.3 Sacrifice and Soteriology 181

7.3 Summary 185

Chapter 8 The Suffering Servant and Matthean Christology 189

8.1 Questioning the Significance of the Suffering Servant 189

8.2 The Dearth of the Servant in the Encyclopedia of Early Judaism 190

8.2.1 Literature apart from Isaiah 190

8.2.2 Isaiah: MT, LXX, Targum 192

8.2.3 Summary 197

8.3 Matthean Quotations of Isaianic "Servant" Material: Healing and Gentile Inclusion 198

8.3.1 Matt 8:17 and Isa 53:4a 198

8.3.2 Matt 12:17-21 and Isa 42:1-4 201

8.3.3 Allusions to the Servant? 204

8.3.4 Summary 206

8.4 Summary: ̤άγαπητσ̤ ?o? in Matt 12:18 206

Chapter 9 The Transfiguration of the Beloved Son 209

9.1 The Heavenly Voice as Theologia Cruris 209

9.2 A New Moses? 210

9.2.1 Evaluating the Moses Typology 210

9.2.2 Alternative Possibilities for Potential Mosaic Allusions 212

9.2.3 "Listen to him" : A Prophet like Moses or a Sacrifice like Isaac? 215

9.2.4 Other Possibilities 219

9.2.5 Summary 222

9.3 The Matthean Transfiguration in Intratextual Perspective: Sonship, Obedience, Cross 223

9.4 The Matthean Transfiguration in Intertextual Perspective: The New Isaac 227

9.5 Summary 235

Chapter 10 Endurance unto Death: The Paschal Passion of the Beloved Son 237

10.1 Obedience, Passover and the Akedah 237

10.2 The Passion Narrative and the Obedience of the Matthean Jesus 237

10.3 The Passover Sacrifice of the Beloved Son 240

10.4 Gethsemane and Arrest: The Ultimate Obedience of the Beloved Son 250

10.5 Summary 260

Chapter 11 Conclusions and Reflections on the Gospel of Matthew and the Figure of Isaac 263

11.1 Summary: The Figure of Isaac in the First Gospel 263

11.2 Concerns for Further Consideration: Soteriology and Temple 268

11.2.1 The Figure of Isaac and the Shape of Matthean Soteriology 268

11.2.2 Jesus, Isaac and the Temple 278.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-319) and indexes.

ISBN:

9789004175693

9004175695

OCLC:

425282088