canonical form of a tradition as it appears in the Hebrew Bible and the development of that tradition in the teaching of Jesus. I suggest that Jesus functioned as any Second Temple Period teacher did when he alluded to clusters of Scriptural traditions and applied them to his current situation.105 An intertextual relationship exists when an author or speaker intentionally draws texts or traditions together based on some warrant in the early text, even if the modern exegete is puzzled by the connection.