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- Title
Acts 1:15-26 and the Craft of New Testament Poetry.
- Authors
WHITLOCK, MATTHEW G.
- Abstract
New Testament poetry is an overlooked genre, ripe with intertextuality, multilingualism, and syntactic symmetry. Its terse and symmetrical language— mirroring the poetry of the Hebrew Bible by way of the LXX—captures important themes in ways that NT prose cannot. This essays examines two poetic pieces in Acts 1:15-26, one an assemblage of three poetic lines from two psalms (Pss 69:26ab; 109:8b) and the other a prayer imitating these lines, both coming to grips with the tragic loss of Judas, who chose his own place over Jesus’ place, the place of service.
- Subjects
BIBLE. Acts; POETRY in the Bible; BIBLICAL Hebrew poetry; BIBLE. Psalms; JUDAS Iscariot; SEPTUAGINT
- Publication
Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2015, Vol 77, Issue 1, p87
- ISSN
0008-7912
- Publication type
Literary Criticism