The Lord has remembered
Using Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogism as an investigative tool, this article begins with a brief account of the latter's understanding of the utterance. It goes on to show how the Lucan narrative appropriates and engages with (amongst others) the HB Book of Zechariah to advance its o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2003
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2003, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 199-220 |
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| Summary: | Using Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogism as an investigative tool, this article begins with a brief account of the latter's understanding of the utterance. It goes on to show how the Lucan narrative appropriates and engages with (amongst others) the HB Book of Zechariah to advance its own discourse. Another orientation imprinted on it, Luke's primary discourse contains (at least) two semantic positions: its own and that of Zechariah. The article selects five instances of this intertextual relationship to see how the Zecharian discourse is used to reinforce the validity of the Lucan narrative, rooting it in the older discourse concerning the restoration of God's people to himself. Appropriated into the Menippean idiom, the Zecharian text serves to authenticate the key character Jesus as the representative and embodiment of the coming Kingdom of God. The article also seeks to show how Luke, in using Zechariah's depiction of the oracles and of God's imminent intervention in theophanic and apocalyptic terms, invokes a new concept of the community of God's people. Morally grounded in the laws of traditional Judaism, this community is challenged to think beyond the constricting reality of earth-bound kingdoms in order to fix its eyes firmly on the coming Kingdom of God, a universal plane that is open to all people. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/EJC83144 |