Abstract
The episode of the Bethlehem massacre (Matt 2:16-18) uses many levels of intertextuality as a rhetorical device, to solicit an emotional response powerful enough to influence the reader’s worldview. What effect do these intertexts have on Matthew’s readers? How is this affective appeal concerning Rachel’s tears intended to impact the reader’s response to Matthew’s story? Rachel weeping is an emotionally charged image that somehow merges two opposites: hope and sorrow. The intertextuality of this figure can influence readers encouraging them to criticize imperial ideologies that have used violence against innocent people in the past, and oppose those which do so currently.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Rachel Weeping: Intertextuality as a Means of Transforming the Readers’ Worldview
- Divisio Textus and the Interpretive Logic Of Thomas Aquinas’ Lectura Ad Ephesios
- The Prophetess of Endor: Reception of 1 Samuel 28 in Nineteenth Century Mormon History
- Stalin’s Biblical Hermeneutics: From 2 Thessalonians 3 to Acts 4
- Celluloid Esther: The Literary Carnivalesque as Transformed through the Lens of the Cinematic Epic
- Elie Wiesel and the Biblical Archetypes of the Contemporary Middle East
- Christian Terror in Europe? The Bible in Anders Behring Breivik’s Manifesto
- Book Review
- The Pauline Effect: The Use of the Pauline Epistles by Early Christian Writers. Studies of the Bible and Its Reception 5