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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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| Verificar disponibilidad: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Publicado: |
2017
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| En: |
Journal of the bible and its reception
Año: 2017, Volumen: 4, Número: 1, Páginas: 1-20 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Kindermord in Bethlehem
/ Rahel, Personaje bíblico
/ Intertextualidad
/ Sentimiento
/ Injusticia
/ Leserlenkung
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | HB Antiguo Testamento HC Nuevo Testamento |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Injustice
B Intertextuality B Jeremiah B Rachel B Emotion B Reader-response B Matthew’s Gospel |
| Acceso en línea: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Sumario: | 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 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Journal of the bible and its reception
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/jbr-2017-2000 |
