Methodology in the Use of the Old Testament in the New: Context and Criteria

by David Allen (Editor), Steve Smith (Editor)

Overview

This volume brings together scholars of both the Old and New Testaments to discuss three areas of methodological interest in respect of the use of the Old Testament in the New (OT/NT). It begins with an interdisciplinary conversation into insights that OT/NT scholars might glean from other related disciplines and approaches. The subsequent essays consider the notion of an Old Testament text's 'context', and how contemporaneous authors such as Philo or the Qumran community conceived of, and attended to, the concept. The contributors then turn their focus to the criteria that can/should be used for determining Old Testament allusions or echoes, and the legitimacy for so doing, particularly responding to the work of Richard Hays. The volume closes with a fresh proposal for OT/NT methodology, along with a concluding reflection on the collected essays.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567691217
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/19/2019
Series:	The Library of New Testament Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	889 KB

About the Author

David Allen is Academic Dean at Queen's Foundation, Birmingham, UK.

Steve Smith is tutor and lecturer in New Testament studies at St Mellitus College, London, UK.
David Allen is Academic Dean and Tutor in New Testament at The Queen's Foundation, UK.
Steve Smith is Lecturer in New Testament studies at St Mellitus College, UK.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Hawarden anniversary volume - Susan Docherty, Newman University Birmingham, UK
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction David Allen and Steve Smith
Section A: Methodological Insights for OT/NT studies from Outside the New Testament
1. Crossing Testamentary Borders: Methodological Insights for OT/NT Study from Contemporary Hebrew Bible Scholarship - Susan Docherty
2. Scriptural Reuse in Ancient Jewish Literature: Comments and Reflections on the State of the Art - William A. Tooman
3. Genre versus Intertextuality: Linking Wisdom Texts, Themes and Contexts with the wider Old Testament and with the Sayings of Jesus - Katharine J. Dell
4. How Scripture 'Speaks': Insights from the Study of Ancient Media Culture Catrin H. Williams
Section B: The Role of OT Context in OT/NT studies
5. The Meaning and Place of Old Testament Context in OT/NT Methodology - Arthur Keefer
6. Selective Versus Contextual Allusions: Reconsidering Technical Terms of Intertextuality - Beate Kowalski
7. Old Testament Context: Insights from Philo - Kenneth Schenck
8. Old Testament Context: Insights from the Dead Sea Scrolls - Benjamin Wold
Section C: The Role of Criteria for OT/NT studies
9. The Use of Criteria: The State of the Question - David Allen
10. The Use of Criteria: A Proposal from Relevance Theory - Steve Smith
Responses
11. Rethinking Context in the Relationship of Israel's Scriptures to the NT: Character, Agency, and the Possibility of Genuine Change - Rikk Watts
12. Concluding Reflection - Steve Moyise

Bibliography
Author index
Index of references