Rachel weeping: intertextuality as a means of transforming the readers’ worldview
The episode of the Bethlehem massacre (Matt 2:16-18) uses many levels of intertextuality as a rhetorical device, to solicit an emotional response powerful enough to influence the reader’s worldview. What effect do these intertexts have on Matthew’s readers? How is this affective appeal concerning Ra...
| Published in: | Journal of the bible and its reception |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2017
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| In: |
Journal of the bible and its reception
Year: 2017, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-20 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Massacre of the holy innocents
/ Rahel, Biblical person
/ Intertextuality
/ Emotion
/ Injustice
/ Leserlenkung
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Injustice
B Intertextuality B Jeremiah B Rachel B Emotion B Reader-response B Matthew’s Gospel |
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| Summary: | The episode of the Bethlehem massacre (Matt 2:16-18) uses many levels of intertextuality as a rhetorical device, to solicit an emotional response powerful enough to influence the reader’s worldview. What effect do these intertexts have on Matthew’s readers? How is this affective appeal concerning Rachel’s tears intended to impact the reader’s response to Matthew’s story? Rachel weeping is an emotionally charged image that somehow merges two opposites: hope and sorrow. The intertextuality of this figure can influence readers encouraging them to criticize imperial ideologies that have used violence against innocent people in the past, and oppose those which do so currently. |
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| ISSN: | 2329-4434 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of the bible and its reception
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/jbr-2017-2000 |