their introductory essay on intertextuality, ‘every quotation distorts and redefines the “primary” utterance by relocating it within another linguistic and cultural context’.29 On the other hand, the quoted text does not accept this ‘relocation’ without a fight (so to speak), but reminds the reader that it once belonged to a different context. A dynamic is thereby established in which the new affects the old and the old affects the new. The significance of this for ‘Use of the Old Testament in the