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Not All Moabites Are Moabites (Gary Edward Schnittjer)
Most readers hear "Old Testament use of the Old Testament" and picture quotations. Dr. Gary Edward Schnittjer says quotation is the small end of it. An interpretive allusion needs three things: a donor text that gives the language, a receptor text that takes it up, and an identifiable interpretive outcome. That third item is what separates an allusion from an echo, and it is also why later biblical authors so often change the wording. Saying the same thing again was never the point. Moving it forward was.
In this episode, Dr. James Spencer talks with Dr. Schnittjer about his forthcoming Old…
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