The Intertextuality of the Epistles: Explorations of Theory and Practice

CONTENTS

Thomas L. Brodie, Dennis R. MacDonald and Stanley E. Porter
Introduction: Tracing the Development of the Epistles: The Potential and the Problem

PART I. ASPECTS OF THEORY, PRACTICE AND RELATED RESEARCH

Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher
Intertextuality: Between Literary Theory and Text Analysis

Steve Moyise
Intertextuality, Historical Criticism and Deconstruction

Peter Phillips
Biblical Studies and Intertextuality: Should the Work of Genette and Eco Broaden our Horizons?

Erkki Koskenniemi
Josephus and Greek Poets

Jon Paulien
Elusive Allusions in the Apocalypse: Two Decades of Research into John's Use of the Old Testament

PART II. FROM THE OT TO THE EPISTLES

Thomas L. Brodie
The Triple Intertextuality of the Epistles. Introduction

Lukas Bormann
Triple Intertextuality in Philippians

Stanley E. Porter
Further Comments on the Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament

PART III. FROM EPISTLE TO EPISTLE

Annette Merz
The Fictitious Self-Exposition of Paul: How Might Intertextual Theory Suggest a Reformulation of the Hermeneutics of Pseudepigraphy?

Hanna Roose
2 Thessalonians as Pseudepigraphic Reading Instruction for 1 Thessalonians: Methodological Implications and Exemplary Illustration of an Intertextual Concept

J. Michael Gilchrist
Intertextuality and the Pseudonymity of 2 Thessalonians

Outi Leppä
2 Thessalonians among the Pauline Letters: Tracing the Literary Links between 2 Thessalonians and Other Pauline Epistles

David J. Clark
Structural Similarities in 1 and 2 Thessalonians: Comparative Discourse Anatomy

IV. FROM EPISTLE TO NARRATIVE (GOSPEL/ACTS)

Dennis R. MacDonald
A Categorization of Antetextuality in the Gospels and Acts: A Case For Luke's Imitation of Plato and Xenophon to Depict Paul as a Christian Socrates

Paul Elbert
Possible Literary Links between Luke-Acts and Pauline Letters Regarding Spirit-Language

Heikki Leppä
Reading Galatians with and without the Book of Acts

Mike Sommer
A Better Class of Enemy: Opposition and Dependence in the Johannine Writings

Thomas L. Brodie, Dennis R. MacDonald, Stanley E. Porter
Problems Of Method: Suggested Guidelines