The New Isaac: Tradition and Intertextuality in the Gospel of Matthew
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Gospel scholarship has long recognized that Matthean Christology is a rich, multifaceted tapestry weaving multifold Old Testment figures together in the person of Jesus. It is somewhat strange, therefore, that scholarship has found little role for the figure of Isaac in the Gospel of Matthew. Employing Umberto Eco's theory of the Model Reader as a theoretical basis to ground the phenomenon of Matthean intertextuality, this work contends that when read rightly as a coherent narrative in its first-century setting, with proper attention to both biblical texts and extrabiblical traditions about Isaac, the Gospel of Matthew evinces a significant Isaac typology in service of presenting Jesus as new temple and decisive sacrifice.
Ch. 1 The Fate of the Figure of Isaac in the Gospel of Matthew 1Ch. 2 The Model Reader, the Encylopedia and Textual Intention 21Ch. 3 The Model Reader, Intertextuality and Biblical Studies 43Ch. 4 The Akedah Prior to the Common Era 75Ch. 5 The Akedah in the First Century of the Common Era 97Ch. 6 The Figure of Isaac in the First Chapter of the Gospel of Matthew 129Ch. 7 The Baptism of God's Beloved Son 153Ch. 8 The Suffering Servant and Matthean Christology 189Ch. 9 The Transfiguration of the Beloved Son 209Ch. 10 Endurance unto Death: The Paschal Passion of the Beloved Son 237Ch. 11 Conclusions and Reflections on the Gospel of Matthew and the Figure of Isaac 263Bibliography 293Index 321
