Do you not remember? : scripture, story and exegesis in the rewritten Bible of Pseudo-Philo
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Do you not remember? : scripture, story and exegesis in the rewritten Bible of Pseudo-Philo
(Journal for the study of the Pseudepigrapha : supplement series, 37)
Sheffield Academic Press, c2001
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Includes bibliography (p. [332]-349) and indexes
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Fisk builds on intertextual studies to show how and why the author has created these episodes in pursuit of his strategy of rewriting the canonical story. The Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum, a 'rewritten Bible' that follows the broad contours of Genesis to Samuel, includes numerous secondary, or out-of-sequence, episodes, and frequently juxtaposes unrelated biblical characters. The subtlety and significance of these inner-biblical linkages has up to now not been fully appreciated. Building on recent studies in intertextuality, Fisk shows how Pseudo-Philo is often guided by intertextual links and themes present within the canonical precursor, that he is heavily indebted to post-biblical midrashic traditions, and that 'secondary scripture' is a strategic means by which Israel's traditions are reconfigured in this enigmatic text.
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