Melchizedek Passages in the Bible: A Case Study for Inner-biblical and Inter-biblical Interpretation

✍ Scribed by Alan Kamyau Chan

• Publisher: Walter De Gruyter
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 275
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Adopting discourse analysis and text-linguistic approaches, Chan attempts to tackle the Melchizedek texts in Genesis 14, Psalm 110, and Hebrews 5-7. This study illustrates how the Melchizedek is understood and interpreted by later biblical writers. Using the blessing motif as a framework, Chan also argues that Numbers 22-24, 2 Samuel 7 and the Psalter: Books I-V (especially Psalms 1-2) provide a reading paradigm of interpreting Psalm 110. "

✦ Table of Contents

1 An Introduction to Inner-Biblical and Inter-Biblical Interpretation: With Special Reference to the Melchizedek Passages
2 The Issue of Methodology Regarding Inner- and Inter-Biblical Interpretation: Discourse Analysis (Text-Linguistics)
3 The Issue of Methodology Regarding Inner-Biblical and Inter-Biblical Interpretation: Rhetorical Criticism
4 A Literary and Discourse Analysis of Genesis 14
5 A Literary and Discourse Analysis of the Contexts of Genesis 14: Various Texts in Genesis and Numbers 22-24
6 A Literary and Discourse Analysis of the Contexts of Genesis 14: 2 Samuel 7
7 A Literary and Discourse Analysis of Psalm 110
8 The Canonical Shape of the Psalter as Cotexts for Understanding Psalm 110: With Special Reference to Psalms 1-2 and Books I-IV
9 The Canonical Shape of the Psalter as Cotexts for Understanding Psalm 110: A Study of Book V of the Psalter
10 A Literary and Structural Analysis of Hebrews 1-7: An Inter-Biblical Interpretation of Melchizedek
11 A Discourse Analysis of Hebrews 1-7: Syntagmatic Use of the ‟Son” in Light of the Quotations and Allusions of Old Testament Scripture
12 Assessment and Conclusion
Appendix 1: A Study of Issues Related do Inner-Biblical and Inter-Biblical Interpretation
Appendix 2: Genesis 14:18-20: An Insertion or Not
Appendix 3: Layout of the Masoretic Text of Genesis 14
Appendix 4: A Discourse Analysis of Gen 14:20b: Who Gave Tithe to Whom
Appendix 5: Three Texts Concerning Blessings: Genesis 48, 49 and Deuteronomy
Appendix 6: A Critique of Psalms 1 and 2 Not as One Unit
Appendix 7: A Rhetorical Analysis of Psalms 1 and 2

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