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Composite Quotations in Antiquity. Vol. 1: Jewish, Graeco-Roman, and Early Christian Uses (Library of New Testament Studies 525. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016) xiii + 242 pp. hb isbn 978-0-56765-797-8 £63; epdf isbn 978-0-56765-798-5. £70.In the introductory chapter of this collection of essays Adams and Ehorn provide a working definition: “a text may be considered a composite citation when literary borrowing occurs in a manner that includes two or more passages (from the same or different authors) fused together and conveyed as though they are only one” (4). A narrower definition is avoided in the hope that the studies in the volume will lead to more precision. Another aim is to provide scholars who study composite citations in the nt with a wider perspective. Contributors to the book were asked to consider questions that nt interpreters frequently ignore: whether the citing author created or used an existing composite text; the rhetorical purpose of the text in its current location; and whether audiences would have connected the citation with the original contexts of its component parts. In considering such questions, the “volume hopes to provide a more historically grounded and informed discussion of composite quotations” (13) in a projected second
Novum Testamentum – Brill
Published: Jan 5, 2017
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