The Use of the Old Testament in Matthew 1-4

by Erik Waaler

In this book, Erik Waaler discusses how Matthew uses the Old Testament in Matthew 1-4 to describe Jesus as the Christ. He debates the intricate system of changes that occur when a text is moved from one literary context to another and criticizes the current terminology of quotation, allusion, and echo for being too simplistic. Issues like worldview, metalepsis, different sociological, historic and linguistic contexts and development all have to be...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3161622251
• ISBN13: 9783161622250
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.