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13 - Isaiah in Intertextual Perspective

from Part III - Isaiah as Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2024

By
Hyun Chul Paul Kim
Edited by
Christopher B. Hays
Christopher B. Hays
Affiliation:
Fuller Theological Seminary, California
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Summary

One of the poetic features of Isaiah is its intertextuality. The authors of the later portions of the book worked with attention to the existing Isaianic texts, so that the book as a whole is woven together by common themes and vocabulary. Furthermore, the book is full of allusions to other biblical books, and was itself eventually a touchstone for later biblical authors. (Sometimes it is even uncertain which text came first!) Hyun Chul Paul Kim, in “Isaiah in Intertextual Perspective,” analyzes the book at each of these levels, and then looks forward to “points of intersectionality” between Isaiah and the modern world.

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intertextualityredactional compositioninner-biblical exegesishouse of Davidhardeningeating/drinkingagrarianismfamily/householdexileIsaiah with other biblical books
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The Cambridge Companion to the Book of Isaiah , pp. 205 - 224
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Boda, Mark J., Dempsey, Carol J., and Flesher, LeAnn Snow, eds. Daughter Zion: Her Portrait, Her Response. SBLAIL 13. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Carr, David M. “The Many Uses of Intertextuality in Biblical Studies: Actual and Potential.” Pages 505–35 in Congress Volume Helsinki 2010. Edited by Nissinen, Martti. VTSup 148. Leiden: Brill, 2012.Google Scholar
Charlesworth, James H., ed. The Unperceived Continuity of Isaiah. London: T&T Clark, 2019.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
De Troyer, Kristin and Schmitz, Barbara, eds. The Early Reception of the Book of Isaiah. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019.Google Scholar
Grohmann, Marianne and Kim, Hyun Chul Paul, eds. Second Wave Intertextuality and the Hebrew Bible. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2019.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hays, Richard B., Alkier, Stefan, and Huizenga, Leroy A., eds. Reading the Bible Intertextually. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Hibbard, J. Todd and Kim, Hyun Chul Paul, eds. Formation and Intertextuality in Isaiah 24–27. SBLAIL 17. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lester, G. Brooke. Daniel Evokes Isaiah: Allusive Characterization of Foreign Rule in the Hebrew-Aramaic Book of Daniel. LHBOTS 606. London: T&T Clark, 2015.Google Scholar
McGinnis, Claire Mathews and Tull, Patricia K., eds. “As Those Who Are Taught”: The Interpretation of Isaiah from the LXX to the SBL. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Meek, Russell L. “Intertextuality, Inner-Biblical Exegesis, and Inner-Biblical Allusion: The Ethics of a Methodology.” Bib 95 (2014): 280–91.Google Scholar
Melugin, Roy F. and Sweeney, Marvin A., eds. New Visions of Isaiah. JSOTSup 214. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1996.Google Scholar
Nilsen, Tina Dykesteen. The Origins of Deuteronomy 32: Intertextuality, Memory, Identity. New York: Lang, 2018.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schultz, Richard L. “Qoheleth and Isaiah in Dialogue.” Pages 57–70 in Reading Ecclesiastes Intertextually. Edited by Dell, Katharine and Kynes, Will. LHBOTS 587. London: T&T Clark, 2014.Google Scholar
Sweeney, Marvin A. Reading Prophetic Books: Form, Intertextuality, and Reception in Prophetic and Post-Biblical Literature. FAT 89. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wegner, Paul D. “Seams in the Book of Isaiah: Looking for Answers.” Pages 62–94 in The Bible as a Human Witness to Divine Revelation: Hearing the Word of God through Historically Dissimilar Traditions. Edited by Heskett, Randall and Irwin, Brian. London: T&T Clark, 2010.Google Scholar

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