Scribal Culture and Intertextuality: Literary and Historical Relationships Between Job and Deutero-Isaiah

ISBN-13: 9783161543975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 277 str.

JiSeong James Kwon

Opis

In this work, JiSeong James Kwon examines a variety of scholarly arguments concerning the distinctive literary and historical relationship between the book of Job and the second part of the book of Isaiah (Isaiah 40-55), so-called Deutero-Isaiah. The general methodology in a comparative study between biblical texts has been the author-oriented approach which traces the complex interrelationships between corresponding texts, considering many verbal and thematic similarities. But this approach often arises from the misleading concepts of literary dependence from an early source to a later one. Here, JiSeong James Kwon argues that scribes were writers of biblical materials and belonged to a group of the literate elite in Judahite society. Resemblances between the two books result from the production of a scribal culture. This view may shed a light on traditional researches influenced by form-criticism, which divides the literate groups in Israelite society into different professional groups-priests, sages, and prophets.

O autorze

Born 1977; 2010 Master of Divinity, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, USA; 2012 Master of Theology, 2016 PhD in Biblical Studies, Durham University, UK; currently Editor/Lecturer in Holy Wave Publishing & Academy and External Lecturer in Pierson School of Theology, Pyeongtaek University, South Korea.