Bibliography: Early Jewish and Christian Interpretation of Scripture

© Roy E. Ciampa, 2003

Book-Specific Monographs in Canonical Order

Matthew

Paul J. Achtemeier and Elizabeth Achtemeier, To Save All People: A Study of the Record of God's Redemptive Acts in Deuteronomy and Matthew. Boston: United Church Press, 1967.

D. C. Allison, The New Moses: A Matthean Typology.  Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1993.

Richard Beaton, Isaiah’s Christ in Matthew’s Gospel. SNTSMS, 123. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Michael D. Goulder. Midrash and Lection in Matthew.  London: SPCK, 1974.

Robert H. Gundry, The Use of the Old Testament in St. Matthew's Gospel. With Special Reference to the Messianic Hope. Leiden:  E. J. Brill, 1967.

M. Knowles, Jeremiah in Matthew’s Gospel. The Rejected-Prophet Motif in Matthaean Redaction.  Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993.

David D. Kupp, Matthew's Emmanuel: Divine Presence and God's People in the First Gospel.  Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Jon Laansma, ‘I will give you rest’: The ‘Rest’ Motif in the New Testament with Special Reference to Mt 11 and Heb 3-4.  Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1997.

M. J. J. Menken, Matthew's Bible The Old Testament Text of the Evangelist. Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium, 173. Leuven: University Press, 2004.

Jean Miler, Les citations d'accomplissement dans l'Évangile de Matthieu: quand Dieu se rend présent en toute humanité.  Rome: Pontificio istituto biblico, 1999.

Krister Stendahl, The School of St. Matthew and its Use of the Old Testament.  Lund: CWK Gleerup, 1968.

J. Samuel Subramanian, The Synoptic Gospels and the Psalms As Prophecy. LNTS, 351. London: T & T Clark, 2007.

Roland H. Worth, Jr., The Sermon on the Mount: Its Old Testament Roots. New York: Paulist, 1997.

 

Mark

Stephen Ahearne-Kroll, The Psalms of Lament in Mark's Passion: Jesus’ Davidic Suffering.  SNTSMS, 142. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Roger David Aus, The Wicked Tenants and Gethsemane: Isaiah in the Wicked Tenants’Vineyard, and Moses and the High Priest in Gethsemane: Judaic Traditions in Mark 12:1-9 and 14:32-42.  Atlanta: Scholars, 1996.

Thomas R. Hatina, In Search of a Context: The Function of Scripture in Mark's Narrative.  London; New York: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.

M. D. Hooker, The Son of Man in Mark.  London: SPCK, 1967.

Volker A. Lehnert, Die Provokation Israels: die paradoxe Funktion von Jes 6,9-10 bei Markus und Lukas: ein textpragmatischer Versuch im Kontext gegenwärtiger Rezeptionsästhetik und Lesetheorie.  Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1999.

Joel Marcus,  The Way of the Lord: Christological Exegesis of the Old Testament in the Gospel of Mark.  Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1992.

J. Samuel Subramanian, The Synoptic Gospels and the Psalms As Prophecy. LNTS, 351. London: T & T Clark, 2007.

Rikki E. Watts,  Isaiah’s New Exodus in Mark.  Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Books, 2000.

 

Luke

Darrell L. Bock, Proclamation from Prophecy and Pattern: Lucan Old Testament Christology. Sheffield: JSOT, 1987.

Rebecca I. Denova, The Things Accomplished Among Us: Prophetic Tradition in the Structural Pattern of Luke-Acts.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.

Craig A. Evans and James A. Sanders, Luke and Scripture: The Function of Sacred Tradition in Luke-Acts. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.

Traugott Holtz, Untersuchungen über die alttestamentlichen Zitate bei Lukas. Berlin:  Akademie-Verlag, 1968.

C. A. Kimball, Jesus’ Exposition of the Old Testament in Luke’s Gospel.  Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1994.

Volker A. Lehnert, Die Provokation Israels: die paradoxe Funktion von Jes 6,9-10 bei Markus und Lukas: ein textpragmatischer Versuch im Kontext gegenwärtiger Rezeptionsästhetik und Lesetheorie.  Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1999.

Kenneth Duncan Litwak, Echoes of Scripture in Luke-Acts: Telling the History of God's People Intertextually.  London: T&T Clark, 2005.

Dietrich Rusam, Das Alte Testament bei Lukas. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2003.

Mark L. Straus,  The Davidic Messiah in Luke-Acts: The Promise and its Fulfillment in Lukan Christology.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

J. Samuel Subramanian, The Synoptic Gospels and the Psalms As Prophecy. LNTS, 351. London: T & T Clark, 2007.

 

John

P. Borgen, Bread from Heaven: An Exegetical Study of the Con­cept of Manna in the Gospel of John and the Writings of Philo.  Leiden: Brill, 1965.

Andrew C. Brunson, Psalm 118 in the Gospel of John: An Intertextual Study on the New Exodus Pattern in the Theology of John.  WUNT 2/158.  Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003.

M. Daly-Denton, David in the Fourth Gospel: The Johannine Recep­tion of the Psalms.  Leiden: Brill, 2000.

Craig A. Evans, Word and Glory: On the Exegetical and Theological Background of John's Prologue.  Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993.

A. T. Hanson, The Prophetic Gospel. A Study of John and the Old Testament.  Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1991.

Edmund Little, Echoes of the Old Testament in the Wine of Cana in Galilee (John 2.1-11) and the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish (John 6.1-15).  Cahiers de la revue biblique, 41.  Paris: Gabalda, 1998.

M. J. J. Menken, Old Testament Quotations in the Fourth Gospel: ­Studies in Textual Form.  Kampen: Kok, 1996.

M. J. J. Menken, Schriftgebruik in het Vierde Evangelie het citaat uit Psalm 41:10 in Johannes 13:18. UTP-teksten, nr. 8. Heerlen: UTP, 1989.

Wayne A. Meeks, The Prophet-King: Moses Traditions and the Johannine Christology.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1967.

Günter Reim, Studien zum alttestamentlichen Hintergrund des Johannesevangeliums. SNTSMS, 22.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974.

B. G. Schuchard, Scripture Within Scripture: The Interrelationship of Form and Function in the Explicit Old Testament Citations in the Gospel of John.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992.

Claus Westermann, The Gospel of John in the Light of the Old Testament.  Translated by Siegfried S. Schatzmann. Peabody, MA:: Hendrickson, 1998.

 

Acts

Rebecca I. Denova, The Things Accomplished Among Us: Prophetic Tradition in the Structural Pattern of Luke-Acts.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.

Craig A. Evans and James A. Sanders, Luke and Scripture: The Function of Sacred Tradition in Luke-Acts. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.

Traugott Holtz, Untersuchungen über die alttestamentlichen Zitate bei Lukas. Berlin:  Akademie-Verlag, 1968.

Kenneth Duncan Litwak, Echoes of Scripture in Luke-Acts: Telling the History of God's People Intertextually.  London: T&T Clark, 2005.

David Pao, Acts and the Isaianic New Exodus.   Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2002.

Dietrich Rusam, Das Alte Testament bei Lukas. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2003.

G. J. Steyn, Septuagint Quotations in the Context of the Petrine and Pauline Speeches of the Acta Apostolorum.  Kampen: Kok, 1995.

Mark L. Straus,  The Davidic Messiah in Luke-Acts: The Promise and its Fulfillment in Lukan Christology.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

 

Romans

Brian J. Abasciano, Paul’s Use of the Old Testament in Romans 9:1-9.  LNTS, 301.  London & New York: T & T Clark, 2005.

Richard H. Bell, Provoked to Jealousy: The Origin and Purpose of the Jealousy Motif in Romans 9-11.  Tübingen: Mohr, 1994.

Timothy W. Berkley, From a Broken Covenant to Circumcision of the Heart: Pauline Intertextual Exegesis in Romans 2:17-29.  SBLDS, 175.  Atlanta, Georgia: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000.

Olle Christoffersson, The Earnest Expectation of the Creature: The Flood-Tradition as Matrix of Romans 8:18-27.  Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1990.

Hans Hübner, Gottes Ich und Israel: Zum Schriftgebrauch des Paulus in Römer 9–11.  FRLANT, 136.  Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984.

Sylvia C. Keesmaat, Paul and His Story: (Re)-Interpreting the Exodus Tradition.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.

Felice Montagnini, Rom. 5, 12-14 alla luce del dialogo rabbinico. Brescia: Paideia, 1971.

Shiu-Lun Shum, Paul’s Use of Isaiah in Romans: A Comparative Study of Paul’s Letter to the Romans and the Sibylline and Qumran Sectarian Texts.  WUNT 2/156.  Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002.

J. Ross Wagner,  Heralds of the Good News: Isaiah and Paul "In Concert" in the Letter to the Romans.  Leiden: Brill, 2002.

 

1 Corinthians

Karl-Heinrich Ostmeyer, Taufe und Typos: Elemente und Theologie der Tauftypologien in 1. Korinther 10 und 1. Petrus 3. WUNT 2/118.  Tübingen: Mohr, 2000.

Brian S. Rosner, Paul, Scripture and Ethics: A Study of 1 Corinthians 5–7.  Leiden: Brill and Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994, 1999.

H. H. Drake Williams, III,  The Wisdom of the Wise: The Presence and Function of Scripture within 1 Cor. 1:18-3:23.  Leiden:  Brill, 2001.

 

2 Corinthians

Linda L. Belleville, Reflections of Glory: Paul's Polemical Use of the Moses-Doxa Tradition in 2 Corinthians 3.1-18.  Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1991.

Scott J. Hafemann, Paul, Moses, and the History of Israel: The Letter/Spirit Contrast and the Argument from Scripture in 2 Corinthians 3.  WUNT, 81.  Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1995.

C. Marvin Pate, Adam Christology as the Exegetical & Theological Substructure of 2 Corinthians 4:7-5:21.  Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1991.

C. K. Stockhausen, Moses’ Veil and the Glory of the New Covenant: The Exegetical Substructure of II Cor. 3:1–4:6.  Rome: Pontificio Instituto Biblico, 1989.

William J. Webb,  Returning Home: New Covenant and Second Exodus as the Context for 2 Corinthians 6.14-7.1.  Sheffield:  JSOT Press, 1993.

 

Galatians

Roy E. Ciampa, The Presence and Function of Scripture in Galatians 1 and 2.  WUNT 2/102.  Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1996.

G. Walter Hansen, Abraham in Galatians: Epistolary and Rhetorical Contexts. Sheffield: JSOT, 1989.

B. W. Longenecker, The Triumph of Abraham’s God.  Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1998.

C. Marvin Pate, The Reverse of the Curse: Paul, Wisdom, and the Law.  Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2000.

Andrew Hollis Wakefield, Where to Live: The Hermeneutical Significance of Paul's Citations from Scripture in Galatians 3:1-14. Academia Biblica 14.  Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

William N. Wilder, Echoes of the Exodus Narrative in the Context and Background of Galatians 5:18. Studies in Biblical Literature, 23. New York: Peter Lang, 2001.

Jeffrey R. Wisdom, Blessing for the Nations and the Curse of the Law: Paul's Citation of Genesis and Deuteronomy in Gal 3.8-10.  Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001.

 

Ephesians

W. Hall Harris, The Descent of Christ: Ephesians 4:7-11 and Traditional Hebrew Imagery.  Biblical Studies Library.  Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.

Thorsten Moritz, A Profound Mystery: The Use of the Old Testament in Ephesians.  Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1996.

Thomas R. Neufeld, Put On the Armour of God: The Divine Warrior from Isaiah to Ephesians.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.

 

Philippians

See: Bruce L. Fields, “Paul as Model: The Rhetoric and Old Testament Background of Philippians 3:1-4:1.”  Ph.D. diss., Marquette University, 1995.

 

Pastoral Epistles

See: A. T. Hanson, “The Use of the Old Testament in the Pastoral Epistles,” IBS 3 (1981): 203–19.

 Benjamin Paul Wolfe,  “The Place and Use of Scripture in the Pastoral Epistles.”   Ph.D. diss., The University of Aberdeen (Scotland), 1990.

 

Hebrews

Herbert W. Bateman, IV, Early Jewish Hermeneutics and Hebrews 1:5-13: The Impact of Early Jewish Exegesis on the Interpretation of a Significant New Testament Passage.  New York: P. Lang, 1997.

M. R. D’Angelo, Moses in the Letter to the Hebrews.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1979.

Graham Hughes, Hebrews and Hermeneutics: The Epistle to the Hebrews as a New Testament Example of Biblical Interpretation. Cambridge: CUP, 1978.

Simon Kistemaker, The Psalm Citations in the Epistle to the Hebrews.  Amsterdam:  Wed. G. van Soest N.V., 1961.

Jon Laansma, ‘I will give you rest’: The ‘Rest’ Motif in the New Testament with Special Reference to Mt 11 and Heb 3-4.  Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1997.

Sidney G. Sowers, The Hermeneutics of Philo and Hebrews: A Comparison of the Interpretation of the Old Testament in Philo Judaeus and the Epistle to the Hebrews.  Zürich: EVZ-Verlag, 1965.

F. C. Synge, Hebrews and the Scriptures.  London: SPCK, 1959.

 

1 Peter

William L. Schutter, Hermeneutic and Composition in I Peter. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1989.

 

Revelation

Gregory K. Beale, John's Use of the Old Testament in Revelation.  Sheffield:  Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.

Gregory K. Beale, The Use of Daniel in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and in the Revelation of St. John.  Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984.

William J. Dumbrell, The End of the Beginning: Revelation 21-22 and the Old Testament.  Grand Rapids: Baker, 1985.

J. Fekkes, Isaiah and Prophetic Traditions in the Book of Revelation (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994.

David Mathewson, A New Heaven and a New Earth: The Meaning and Function of the Old Testament in Revelation 21.1-22.5. London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003.

John Andrew McLean, The Seventieth Week of Daniel 9:27 as a Literary Key for Understanding the Structure of the Apocalypse of John.  Lewiston, ME: Mellen Biblical Press, 1996.

Steve Moyise, The Old Testament in the Book of Revelation.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

J.-P. Ruiz, Ezekiel in the Apocalypse: The Transformation of Prophetic Language in Revelation 16:17-19.10.  Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1989.

A. Schlatter, Das Alte Testament in der johanneischen Apokalypse. Gütersloh: C. Bertelsmann, 1912.