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...

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Main Author: Doane, Sébastien 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2017
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
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.
ISSN:2329-4434
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of the bible and its reception
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/jbr-2017-2000