Actions for Matthew's new David at the end of exile : a socio-rhetorical study of scriptural quotations

Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

Matthew's new David at the end of exile : a socio-rhetorical study of scriptural quotations / by Nicholas G. Piotrowski

Author
Piotrowski, Nicholas G.
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Physical Description
xxiv, 315 pages ; 26 cm.

Availability

Browse Nearby on Shelf
I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Series
Contents
The effect of Isaiah's narrative world in Matthew 1:18-25 -- The effect of Micah's narrative world in Matthew 2:1-12 -- Exile and David in the Late Second Temple cultural encyclopedia -- The effect of Hosea's and Jeremiah's narrative worlds in Matthew 2:13-21 -- The effect of the prophets' narrative world in Matthew 2:22-23 -- The effect of Isaiah's narrative world in Matthew 3:1-4:11 -- The effect of Isaiah's narrative world in Matthew 4:12-17.
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.
Subject(s)
ISBN
9789004326781 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
9004326782 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-293) and indexes.
View MARC record | catkey: 20040065