Questions tagged [intertextuality]
Intertextuality is the shaping of one text's meaning by another text. It is the interconnection between similar or related works of literature that reflect and influence an audience's interpretation of the text. Intertextual processes include allusion, quotation, plagiarism, translation and parody. (based on the Wikipedia definition)
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Deeper understanding of Ezekiel 11:3's "...The time is not near to build houses. This city is the pot and we are the flesh.."
Ezekiel 11:3 's English translation sort of throws a spanner in the works in regard to how the Western 21st century bible reader can understand Ezekiel 11.
Ezekiel 11:1-4
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Understanding Job 27: 13-23: What is the evidence for this being a missing fragment of Zophar's third speech? [closed]
I've been doing an extreme deep dive of the Book of Job and have tracked every argument, line, theme, sub-theme, and portion of the book so that I can make sense of it the best I can. I'm someone who ...
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How To Read the 17 Prophetic Books (Repeat) [closed]
(I originally posted this question in https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/111250/how-to-read-the-17-books-of-prophecy/111269#111269 || but I want to post it here for visibility sake among ...
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How To Tell When A New Paragraph Starts and When A New Subject is being Discussed?
(I originally posted this in https://christianity.stackexchange.com/ || I accidentally thought I was posting it to this group though. Here's my post)
When I'm reading the Word, how can I tell that a ...
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How are Ephesians 5:18 and Acts 2:13 related?
[Ephesians 5:18 NASB] And do not get drunk with wine, in which there is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
[Acts 2:13 NASB] But others were jeering and saying, “They are full of sweet wine!”
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Lam 1:10 "..she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary,The ones whom You commanded That they should not enter into....." & intermarrying foreigners
The Lamentations 1:10 (a) bible verse suggests that the adversary of Israel would take away Israel's precious things.
In Lamentations 1:10 (b) , it states that Israel has seen the foreign nation ...
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Genesis 2:25, before whom "they are not ashamed of themselves"?
Genesis 2:25, YLT
And they are both of them naked, the man and his wife, and they are not ashamed of themselves.
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Does "naked" mean they were uncovered, i.e. visible/exposed in ...
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Does ‘double-edge sword’ from Revelation 1:16 refer to ‘flame sword’ from Genesis 3:24?
Revelation 1:16:
and having in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword is proceeding, and his countenance is as the sun shining in its might.
Revelation 2:16:
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How to “successfully” violate the Mosaic law by using Matthew 15:5-6?
Jesus said to the Pharisees in Matthew 15:5-6, YLT:
[YLT] 5 but ye say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering is whatever thou mayest be profited by me; 6 and he may not honour his father ...
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Are there OT grounds for the church becoming a temple? [closed]
Passages in the NT describe the church forming part of (if not the whole) temple (1 Cor 3:16-17; 6:19-20; 2 Cor 6:16; Eph 2:21; Rev 3:12; 13:6). Since Jesus claims to be the temple (Matt 26:60-62; Jn ...
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Does Mat 6:22-24 and Mat 10:28 together teach that each human created with two “bodies” or one “essentially two-part” body?
Jesus gave a parable for a crowd in Matthew 6:22-24, YLT:
22 'The lamp (“soul”?) of the body is the eye, if, therefore, thine eye may be perfect, all thy body shall be enlightened, 23 but if thine ...
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Are "power" in Matthew 28:18 and "authority" in Mark 13:25-6 meaning the same?
Matthew 28:18 (YLT):
18 And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, 'Given to me was all authority (ἐξουσία) in heaven and on earth
Mar 13:25-26 (YLT):
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(Jeremiah 12:2 b) ".....You are near to their lips But far from their mind." Biblical scriptures' use of the word term "mind" vs the word term "heart"
Throughout biblical scripture, the word terms called "mind" and "heart" are used frequently in order to evaluate or emphasize the sincerity one has towards something.
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Ambiguity in John 1:12 MSG
But whoever did want Him, who believed He was who He claimed and would do what He said, He made to be their true selves, their child-of-God selves.
The Message translation of John 1:12 seems ambiguous ...
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How to explain Mark's omission of the affirmation "then the disciples understood"? (Mark 9)
Comparing the account of the Transfiguration in Mark and Matthew, I noticed some intriguing differences in the two endings of the narrative.
Mark 9
“Elijah will indeed come first and restore all ...
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