The Text in the Middle

This book is an analysis of inner-biblical exegesis which ordinarily involves examination of the intertextual relationship between two texts within the biblical corpus. The direction of dependence between texts of this kind is not as important in the present study as the direction in which these texts were meant to be read by those who gave them their final shape.

Analysis of inner-biblical exegesis ordinarily involves examination of the intertextual relationship between two texts within the biblical corpus. But in many cases there is an often overlooked intertext that serves as a bridge between the two texts. Such an intermediary text reads the primary text in a manner similar to the way the tertiary text reads it and supplies a missing link in a very subtle yet identifiable manner. The direction of dependence between texts of this kind is not as important in the present study as the direction in which these texts were meant to be read by those who gave them their final shape.

Auteur

Michael B. Shepherd received his PhD in Old Testament Studies from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Currently, he is Associate Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew and Holder of the John and Allie Fogleman Professorship in Religion at Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana. His previous works include multiple peer-reviewed journal articles as well as the following books published by Peter Lang: The Verbal System of Biblical Aramaic: A Distributional Approach, Daniel in the Context of the Hebrew Bible, The Twelve Prophets in the New Testament, and The Textual World of the Bible.