Contents List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Intertextuality - A Multi-faceted Theme An Introduction Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen, Arie Versluis and Katharine J. Dell Part 1 Methodological Aspects of Intertextuality2 Inner-Biblical Exegesis and Intertextuality An Uneasy Relationship Katharine J. Dell 3 Communicative Intertextuality Isaiah 53:4a-b and Matthew 8:17c-d Archibald L.H.M.

van Wieringen 4 Bodies That Speak On Gender and Intertextuality in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond L. Juliana M. Claassens 5 How to Do Things with Word Studies An Intertextual Perspective Richard S. Briggs Part 2-A Examples of Intertextuality: the Diachronic Perspective6 Was Genesis 1 Dependent on Psalm 104? John Day 7 Jeremiah 31:28 in Light of Its Intertexts Integrating the Book of Consolation into the Book of Jeremiah Henk de Waard 8 Towards an Intertextual Reading of Habakkuk 3 Gert T.M. Prinsloo Part 2-B Examples of Intertextuality: the Synchronic Perspective9 The Two Tamars Intertextuality and (Re)Interpretation in Genesis 38 and 2 Samuel 13 Elizabeth R. Hare 10 Fleeing from Solomon An Intertextual Reading of the Flight Stories in 1 Kings 1-11 In Light of the Pentateuch Mart Jan Luteijn 11 Wisdom and Creation in Sirach 1:1-20 Intertextuality and Ben Sira's Development of a Tradition Hilary Marlow 12 "A Root of Bitterness" An Intertextual Study of the Use and Meaning of the Phrase in Deuteronomy 29:17 and Hebrews 12:15 Albert J. Coetsee Part 2-c Examples of Intertextuality: beyond the Old Testament13 The Intertextuality of Deixis First and Third Person Royal Narratives in the Book of Kings and Comparable West Semitic Inscriptions from the Levant and Ancient South Arabia Mario Tafferner 14 Intertextual Elements in Medieval Jewish Exegesis and Poetry Abraham Ibn Ezra's Reinterpretation of the Song of Songs Joachim J.

M.S. Yeshaya 15 "I Am Ready, My Lord" The Bible and Leonard Cohen's Theodicy: the Case of "You Want It Darker" Frank G. Bosman Index of References Index of Modern Authors.