Scriptural Allusions in the New Testament (2000 Allison), book
Scriptural Allusions in the New Testament: Light from the Dead Sea Scrolls (2000) is a book by Dale C. Allison.
Abstract
"Almost every book in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament is charged with allusion to 'subtexts'. In order to appreciate those books fully, one must see behind them, to the texts in the background. Without such vision, interpretation is constricted. This sort of allusion may be too subtle for many modern readers. The result is that we are not accustomed to the phenomenon of few words signifying much. But we should not allow our historically conditioned deafness to blind us to oblique allusions in the Bible. Yet, how can the contemporary reader of an ancient work recognise these allusions? We may believe that we are reading books that are incomplete utterances and full of holes, that we must make present what is absent. Reading the Bible, we are in much the same position as a college student struggling to understand Dante or Milton. Every phrase has something in it, much more than initially perceived, but how do we perceive it? In this book, Professor Allison shows how the Dead Sea Scrolls can be of great help in this difficult task. Scrolls help us better comprehend how certain scriptural allusions function in the New Testament."--Publisher description.
Editions
Published in North Richland Hills, TX: BIBAL Press, 2000 (Dead Sea Scrolls & Christian Origins Library, 5).
Contents
The dove at the baptism and Gen 1:2 -- The new Moses of the new Exodus -- Excommunication and Lev 19:17-18 -- The trial of the Son of David and 2 Samuel 7 -- Uses of Isaiah in the Gospels and James -- The end in Zechariah and the end of Jesus
External links
- [ Google Books]