(242-244). A future for back-referencing / Ziony Zevit (1-21) -- 2. Identifying literary allusions: theory, and the criterion of shared language / Joseph Ryan Kelly (22-40) -- 3. Method in determining the dependence of biblical on non-biblical texts / David M. Carr (41-53) -- 4. Subtle citation, allusion, and translation: evidence in Hittite texts and some biblical implications / Ada Taggar-Cohen (54-72) -- 5. Identifying Torah sources in the historical Psalms / Marc Z. Brettler (73-90) -- 6. Identifying subtle allusions: the promise of narrative tracking / Jeffery M. Leonard (91-113) -- 7. Literary allusions and assumptions about textual familiarity / Joel S. Baden (114-130) -- 8. Isaiah 60-62 in intertextual perspective / Marvin A. Sweeney (131-142) -- 9. The Book of Job and Mesopotamian literature: how many degrees of separation? / Edward L. Greenstein (143-158) -- 10. Method in the study of textual source dependence: the covenant code / David P. Wright (159-181) -- 11. To refer or not to refer: that is the question / Peter Machinist (182-227) -- 12. Gauging Egyptian influences on biblical literature / Michael V. Fox (228-241) -- 13. A future for back-referencing / Ziony Zevit (242-244).
Summary:
Biblicists have long been aware that some compositions in the Bible cite and allude to other compositions. At times these practices are obvious; often, however, they are not. Essays in this volume focus on subtle, not-so-obvious, unrecognized cases of citation and allusion as well as on unrecognized 'translations' from other languages and references to motifs in the plastic arts. Individual authors address unapparent cases and the methodological considerations on which their status as 'genuine' can be established. The essays in this volume are significant because of the methodological considerations and cautions that they describe and the varied texts that they analyze. Biblicists drawing on insights from this book will be able to provide thicker descriptions of Israelite literature and literacy and to construct relative chronologies of biblical compositions with greater accuracy than has been possible until now.
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