Sofia 2024 Call for Papers
1. The methodology of intertextuality as used in relation to wisdom literature
The study of intertextuality is a flourishing one but there is also ambiguity in defining it and its parameters. There are also related concepts of inner-biblical exegesis or allusion and mimesis and so the clarity of the method can be obscured. The suggested criteria are lexical similarities such as a shared vocabulary and phraseology but also important are parallels based on content or motif and formal and structural similarities between texts. This unit will attempt to elucidate the criteria scholars utilize, eg citation, echoes, allusion and memorization. In this first year of the unit, we are interested in issues of methodology particularly in relation to intertexts between the wisdom books of the canon and deutero-canon.
2. Wisdom books and Deuteronomy
Deuteronomic links are often pointed to in the wisdom material (following M Weinfeld’s influential book, Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic School, 1972) notably in Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, in certain wisdom psalms and in Ben Sira. This unit seeks to draw out intertexts with Deuteronomy and the wider Deuteronomic material and also seeks to explore intertextual links of this nature between different wisdom books.