The aim of this volume is, in part, to open up the discussion of intertextuality and its importance for reading the Bible in a two-fold way: first, to provide readers with an entrée into the wide-ranging theoretical discussions of intertextuality in literary and cultural critical fields; and, second, to illustrate many of the diverse and fruitful ways intertextuality is already being employed as a critical lever in the work of biblical scholars today. First systematically developed by Julia Kristeva