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How does the New Testament echo the Old? Which versions of the Hebrew Scriptures were authoritative for New Testament writers? The appearance of concepts, images, and passages from the Old Testament in the books of the New raises important questions about textual versions, allusions, and the differences between ancient and modern meaning. Written by ten distinguished scholars, Hearing the Old...

is the way a text draws in the world outside the text, what Robbins calls intertexture. There are four aspects or dimensions to intertexture: oral-scribal, cultural, social, and historical. “Oral scribal intertexture involves a text’s use of any other text outside of itself, whether it is an inscription, the work of a Greek poet, non-canonical apocalyptic material, or the Hebrew Bible.”101 His theory of oral-scribal intertexture suggests five ways in which a text refers to language in another text:
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