Verbal resonance in the bible and intertextuality

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 3-27

  Hepner, Gershon ^a  

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EID: 60950169698     PISSN: 03090892     EISSN: 14766728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030908920102600201     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. A. Robert, 'Les attaches littéraires bibliques de Prov. 1-1X', RB 43 (1934), pp. 42-68, 172-204, 374-84; 44 (1935), pp. 334-65, 502-25
2. S. Sandmel, The Haggadah Within Scripture', JBL 80 (1961), pp. 105-22
3. I.L. Seeligmann, 'Voraussetzung der Midraschexegese', in G.W. Anderson (ed.), Congress Volume, Copenhagen 1953 (VTSup, 1; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1953), pp. 150-81
4. Nahum Sarna, 'Psalm 89: A Study in Inner-Biblical Exegesis', in Alexander Altmann (ed.), Biblical and Other Studies (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963), pp. 29-46. Sarna was the first scholar to use the term 'inner-biblical exegesis', whose significance I will discuss below
5. AryehToeg, 'Num 15:22-31: Midrash Halacha', Tarbiz 43 (1973-74), pp. 1-20 (Hebrew)
6. Michael Fishbane, Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985)
7. Yair Zakoviteh, An Introduction to Inner-Biblical Interpretation (Even-Yehuda: Reches Publishing House, 1992) (Hebrew)
8. Bernard M. Levinson, Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)
9. Benjamin D. Sommer, A Prophet Reads Scripture: Allusion in Isaiah 40-66 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998)
10. For its use by the Qumran sectaries see Eliezer Slomovic, Towards an Understanding of the Exegesis of the Dead Sea Scrolls', RevQ 7 (1969-71), pp. 5-9
11. A. Guillaume, 'Paronomasia in the Old Testament', JSS 9 (1964), pp. 282-90
12. David Weiss Halivni, Peshat and Derash: Plain and Applied Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 52-88
13. For bilingual wordplay see Gary A. Rendsburg, 'Bilingual Wordplay in the Bible', VT 38 (1988), pp. 354-57
14. idem, 'Word Play in Biblical Hebrew: An Eclectic Collection', in Scott B. Noegel (ed.), Puns and Pundits (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2000), pp. 137-62 (141-44)
15. Abraham's incestuous marriage with his half-sister Sarah foreshadows that of David with his half-sister Abigail (see Jon D. Levenson and Baruch Halpern, 'The Political Import of David's Marriages', JBL 99 [1980], pp. 507-18)
16. Scholars such as Zakovitch (An Introduction, pp. 30-33) miss the significance of the linkage between Gen. 35.1-4 and the Dinah narrative because of their failure to recognize the way that the verb links Jacob's anguish to the law of proscription and therefore erroneously attribute these verses to a different source
17. Frank Moore Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973), pp. 73, 197-215, 223-34, 237
18. idem, From Epic to Canon: History and Literature in Ancient Israel (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), pp. 45, 57, 59
19. See L.D. Hawk, 'Saul as Sacrifice: The Tragedy of Israel's First Monarch', Bible Review 12 (1996), pp. 20-25, 56 (20)
20. Jacob Milgrom, Leviticus 17-22 (AB, 3a; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 2000), pp. 1474-75
21. Richard Elliot Friedman, The Hidden Book in the Bible: Discovery of the First Prose Masterpiece (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998), p. 197
22. See Milgrom, Leviticus 17-22, pp. 1354, 1459, 1596
23. idem, Leviticus 23-27 (AB, 3b; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 2001), p. 2325
24. See Jacob Milgrom, The JPS Pentateuch: Numbers (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1996), p. 413
25. See Rendsburg, 'Bilingual Wordplay', pp. 155-56
26. Helen Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997), p. xv
27. Moshe Weinfeld, Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic School (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1992), p. 45
28. Dothan echoes the Akkadian ditanu or didanu, the abode of the mysterious beings called Rephaim (W.T. Pitard, 'The Ugaritic Funerary Text RS 34:126', BASOR 232 [1978], pp. 65-75)
29. See J. Vergote, Joseph en Egypte (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1959), pp. 114-15. The Bible applies the word to non-prophetic leaders in 1 Sam. 24.12; 2 Kgs 5.13
30. The phrase echoes an exclamatory phrase popular during the Aramean wars of the mid-ninth century. See K. Galling, 'Der Ehrenname Elisas und die Entrückung Elias', ZTK 53 (1956), pp. 129-48
31. see M.A. Beek, 'The Meaning of the Expression "The Chariots and the Horsemen of Israel" (II Kings ii 12)', OTS 17 (1972), pp. 1-10
32. M.H. Pope, 'Number, Numbering, Numbers', IDB, IV, pp. 294-95
33. See Samuel E. Loewenstamm, The Evolution of the Exodus Tradition (trans. Baruch Schwartz; Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1992), p. 85 n. 31
34. W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch [Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1965-81], p. 927)
35. See Moshe Weinfeld, Deuteronomy 1-11 (AB, 4a; Garden City, NY: Double-day, 1991), p. 223
36. Mary Douglas, Leviticus as Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 20
37. For the distinction between 'presentational' and 'discursive' see Suzanne K. Langer, Philology in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite and Art (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942)
38. Diane Kelsey McColley, Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 78
39. See also William Freedman, The Origin of the Musical Novel (Atlanta: University of Georgia Press, 1978)
40. Jonas Greenberg has described the restriction on the patterning of phonemes in the triconsonantal verbal roots of Semitic languages (J.H. Greenberg, The Patterning of Root Morphemes in Semitic', Word 6 [1950], pp. 162-81). He based his study mainly on a study of some 4000 Arabic roots but his work is very helpful in an understanding of Biblical Hebrew
41. See also J. Kurylowiez, 'Verbal Aspect in Semitics', Or 42 (1973), pp. 114-20
42. Regina Schwartz writes: 'Governed by the logic of similitude, but with no laws to legislate what constitutes "the similar," typological thinking can, with enough ingenuity, make anything fit anything else' (Regina M. Schwartz, The Curse of Cain [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997], p. 172). Her comment is powerful but the power of verbal resonances should deter the biblical reader from exegetical nihilism
43. Martin Buber, 'Leitwortstil in der Erzählung des Pentateuchs', in Werke. II. Schriften zur Bibel (repr., Munich: Kösel, 1964 [1936]), pp. 1131-49
44. Fishbane, Biblical Interpretation, p. 288
45. Sommer, A Prophet Reads Scripture, pp. 34-35
46. See Zvi Malachi, "'Creative Philology" as a System of Biblical and Talmudic Exegesis', in Noegel (ed.), Puns and Pundits, pp. 269-87
47. A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1926), pp. 34-43
48. Jay Clayton and Eric Rothstein, 'Figures in the Corpus: Theories of Influence and Intertextuality', in idem (eds.), Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History (Madison: University of Madison Press, 1991), esp. Chapters 3, 4 and 21
49. See Ziva Ben-Porat, 'The Poetics of Literary Allusion', Poetics and Theory of Literature: A Journal for Descriptive Poetics and the Theory of Literature 1 (1976), pp. 109, 127, 170-171 (170)
50. See Frank Kermode, 'Art among the Ruins', New York Review of Books 48 (2001), pp. 59-63
51. See, e.g., Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt, Practicing New Historicism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001)
52. Avigdor Shinan, The World of the Aggadah (Tel Aviv: MOD Books, 1990), pp. 33-34
53. Stephen Jay Gould, 'What Only the Embryo Knows', The New York Times, 27 August, 2001