COMPOSITE CITATIONS IN ANTIQUITY

Jewish, Graeco-Roman, and Early Christian Uses

Edited by

Sean A. Adams and Seth M. Ehorn

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978-0-56765-797-8

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978-0-56765-798-5

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Series: Library of New Testament Studies, volume 525

LIBRARY OF NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES

525

Formerly Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series

Editor

Chris Keith

Editorial Board

Dale C. Allison, John M.G. Barclay, Lynn H. Cohick, R. Alan Culpepper, Craig A. Evans, Robert Fowler, Simon J. Gathercole, John S. Kloppenborg, Michael Labahn, Love L. Sechrest, Robert Wall, Steve Walton, Catrin H. Williams

Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Abbreviations

Chapter 1

What Is a Composite Citation? An Introduction

Sean A. Adams and Seth M. Ehorn

Chapter 2

Greek Education and Composite Citations of Homer

Sean A. Adams

Chapter 3

Composite Citations in Plutarch

Seth M. Ehorn

Chapter 4

Citation in Elite Roman Epistolary Writing: The Letters of Cicero, Seneca, and Pliny

Margaret H. Williams

Chapter 5

Composite Quotations in Philo of Alexandria

James R. Royse

Chapter 6

Composite Quotations in the Damascus Document

Jonathan D. H. Norton

Chapter 7

Composite Citations in the Septuagint Apocrypha

Sean A. Adams and Seth M. Ehorn

Chapter 8

Composite Citations in Jewish Pseudepigraphic Works: Re-presenting Legal Traditions in the Second Temple Period

Garrick V. Allen

Chapter 9

Composite Features and Citations in Justin Martyrs Textual Composition

Philippe Bobichon

Chapter 10

The Testimonia Hypothesis and Composite Citations

Martin C. Albl

Chapter 11

Composite Citations: Retrospect and Prospect

Christopher D. Stanley

Bibliography

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About Composite Citations in Antiquity: Jewish, Graeco-Roman, and Early Christian Uses

Sean A. Adams and Seth M. Ehorn have drawn together an exciting range of contributors to evaluate the use of composite citations in Early Jewish, Greco-Roman, and Early Christian authors (up through Justin Martyr). The goal is to identify and describe the existence of this phenomenon in both Greco-Roman and Jewish literature. The introductory essay will help to provide some definitional parameters, although the study as a whole will seek to weigh in on this question. The contributors seek to address specific issues, such as whether the quoting author created the composite text or found it already constructed as such. The essays also cover an exploration of the rhetorical and/or literary impact of the quotation in its present textual location, and the question of whether the intended audiences would have recognised and ‘reverse engineered’ the composite citation and, as a result, engage with the original context of each of the component parts.

In addition to the specific studies, Professor Christopher Stanley provides a summary reflection on all of the essays in the volume along with some implications for New Testament studies.

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