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):

Isaac (Biblical patriarch).

Isaac.

Isaac (Biblical patriarch)--Sacrifice.

Jesus Christ--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Jesus Christ.

Bible. Matthew--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Matthew--Relation to Genesis.

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

Intertextuality in the Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Tradition and intertextuality in the Gospel of Matthew

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

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:

The fate of the figure of Isaac in the Gospel of Matthew

The Model Reader, the encyclopedia and textual intention

The Model Reader, intertextuality and biblical studies

The Akedah prior to the Common Era

The Akedah in the first century of the Common Era

The figure of Isaac in the first chapter of the Gospel of Matthew

The baptism of God's beloved Son

The Suffering Servant and Matthean Christology

The dearth of the Servant in the encyclopedia of early Judaism

The transfiguration of the beloved Son

Endurance unto death : the paschal Passion of the beloved Son

Conclusions and reflections on the Gospel of Matthew and the new Isaac.

Notes:

Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Duke University, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-94961-6

9786612949616

90-474-2913-3

OCLC:

695982183

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004175693.i-340 DOI