Acts 1: 15-26 and the Craft of New Testament Poetry
New Testament poetry is an overlooked genre, ripe with intertextuality, multilingualism, and syntactic symmetry. Its terse and symmetrical language—mirroring the poetry of the Hebrew Bible by way of the LXX—captures important themes in ways that NT prose cannot. This essays examines two poetic piece...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Catholic Biblical Association of America
2015
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The catholic biblical quarterly
Year: 2015, Volume: 77, Issue: 1, Pages: 87-106 |
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| Summary: | New Testament poetry is an overlooked genre, ripe with intertextuality, multilingualism, and syntactic symmetry. Its terse and symmetrical language—mirroring the poetry of the Hebrew Bible by way of the LXX—captures important themes in ways that NT prose cannot. This essays examines two poetic pieces in Acts 1:15-26, one an assemblage of three poetic lines from two psalms (Pss 69:26ab; 109:8b) and the other a prayer imitating these lines, both coming to grips with the tragic loss of Judas, who chose his own place over Jesus' place, the place of service. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-2529 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic biblical quarterly
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