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Book SynopsisCreative imitation (Gk, mimesis; Lt, imitatio) was the primary literary convention of the ancient world of the first century CE. This book demonstrates that it was the principal means by which classical authors such as Virgil, Seneca, Plutarch, and Livy, composed their works. It provides an approach to scripture scholarship.
Trade Review"'This is an imaginative, careful, and impressive work. With its analyses of the process of rewriting in Greco-Roman, Jewish, and early Christian works it breaks new ground and has relevance for all of New Testament study. It greatly illumines how and why Matthew used Mark as a source, and as a starting point for his own distinctive portrait of Jesus.' Prof. Daniel Harrington, S.J., Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A FF"
Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: Use of sources in Graeso-Roman antiquity: Towards a context and criteria for examining Matthew's Use of Mark as Source.; Use of Sources in Graeco-Roman Antiquity; The Context: Widespread Practice of Literary Borrowing; The Theory and Practice of Rewriting; Criteria for Establishing Literary Dependence; 2. Rewriting: Evidence from Graeco-Roman; Virgil's Use of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and Apollonius; 3. Rewriting: Evidence from Jewish Texts; PART II: MATTHEW'S USE OF MARK AS A SOURCE; 4. Matthew's Use of Mark as a Source; Matthew and Mark: The Same Genre and Sub-Genre; Matthew Rewrites Mark; 5. Matthew's Judaization of Mark; 6. Matthew; 7 Torahizing of Mark in Two Key Texts 8A Ready Harvest; 8 Becoming; As the Least; Materially (Mt. 10.5-14 // Mk 6.7-; Becoming As the Least; Socially (Mt 10.17-25 // Mk 13.9-13 and 10.43-44) Becoming; As the Least; Spiritually (Mt. 10.40-42 // Mk 9.37b, 41; 9 The Temple Tithe Issue Deuteronomized (Mt 17.22-27; 10 Becoming as a Little Child (Mt. 18.1-10; Mk 9.34, 36, 10.15 9.42a, 43, 45, 47; 14.21, in that order Deuteronomized (Mt. 18.15); Conclusion.
