Intertextuality as Reinterpreting Texts - (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Intertextuality is a multifaceted and complex phenomenon, that can be studied from various perspectives, both diachronically and synchronically. An intertextual relationship is essentially about reinterpreting texts for creating new texts. This volume aims to highlight various approaches by exploring both the methodological dimensions of intertextual research and the ways in which such research may be concretized with regard to specific Old Testament texts.

About the Author

Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen, PhD (1993), is Professor of Old Testament at the School of Catholic Theology, Tilburg University. He has published on prophetic literature and communication-oriented analysis. He is the co-editor of Themes and Texts in Luke-Acts (Brill, 2023) and Memory: Papers Read at the Jewish and Christian Perspectives Conference (Brill, 2025), and co-author along with Frank G. Bosman of Video Games as Art (De Gruyter, 2022). He was President of OTW for 2023-2025.

Katharine J. Dell is Professor of Old Testament Literature and Theology at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. She has written extensively on the wisdom literature and on intertextuality as well as on biblical theology, environmental ethics and musical interpretations of texts. Her latest books are Theology of Proverbs (CUP, 2023) and The Lord by Wisdom Founded the Earth: Creation and Covenant in Old Testament Theology (Baylor, 2023). She was President of SOTS for 2023-2024.

Arie Versluis, PhD (2012), is Professor of Old Testament at the Theological University of Apeldoorn. He has published on divine violence and the book of Deuteronomy. His current research focuses on the ethics of the Hebrew Bible, especially narrative ethics. He was Secretary of OTW for 2023-2025.