Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2013

Publication Title

Biblical Theology Bulletin

First Page

74

Last Page

80

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1177/0146107913482282

Abstract

While recent studies of the New Testament have found the methods of intertextuality and orality studies to be fruitful approaches, there has been insufficient interplay between the two. This article explores the capacity of hearers of texts to pick up on echoes of familiar texts, stories, and songs. Using as an example Paul’s interpretation of Scripture in connection with the topics of monotheism and Christology, the article suggests that, in the absence of explicit and emphatic statements of the difference or distinctiveness of his views, Paul’s allusions to key monotheistic texts would have been understood to indicate Paul’s agreement with the axiom of Jewish monotheism, the Shema.

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This is a post-print version of an article originally published in Biblical Theology Bulletin, 2013, Volume 43, Issue 2.

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