Contents

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Introduction

Maarten Menken: A Portrait in Words

Interpretation of Scripture and the New Testament

Matthew’s Bible in the Infancy Narrative

Theme and Variations: Isaiah’s Song of the Vineyard and Its Influence in the New Testament

The Function of the Two Quotations from Isaiah in Luke 3–4

The Use of Scripture in Luke 9:51–56

The Reception of Tobit in the New Testament and Early Christian Literature, with Special Reference to Luke-Acts

“Are these things so?” (Acts 7:1): A Narrative-intertextual Approach to Reading Stephen’s Speech

A Cry for Help: A Note in the Margin of Acts 16:9

“Bethany beyond the Jordan” (John 1:28) in Retrospect: The View from John 10:40 and Related Texts

Reinigung und Heiligung im Johannesevangelium

The Signs of the Messiah in the Fourth Gospel: The Problem of a “Wonder-working Messiah”

Paul’s Use of the Old Testament and His Attack on Apollos’ Adherents in Corinth

The Text Form of the Torah Quotations Common to the Corpus Philonicum and Paul’s Corinthian Correspondence

Observations on the Significance of the Old Testament in Galatians

Intertextuality—Christology—Pseudepigraphy: The Impact of Old Testament Allusions in 2 Thess 1:5–12

Why Bother Going Outside?: The Use of the Old Testament in Heb 13:10–16

Tracing Scriptural Authority

„Das Buch dieser Prophetie“ – die Schriften Israels und die Schrift des Sehers: Überlegungen zur Schrifthermeneutik der Johannesoffenbarung

The Theologoumenon “New”: Bridging the Old and the New Testament

“Which if a man do them he shal live by them”: Jewish and Christian Discourse on Lev 18:5

The Old Testament in the New: A Resource for an Ecological Reading

Interpretation of Scripture after the New Testament

“Bearing the Entire Yoke of the Lord”: An Explanation of Didache 6:2 in the Light of Matthew 11:28–30

Isaiah 60:17 as a Key for Understanding the Two-fold Ministry of ἐπισκόποι and διάκονοι according to First Clement (1 Clem 42:5)

Biblical Quotations in Judaeo-Greek Inscriptions

The Use of the Old Testament in Scripture Readings in Early Christian Assemblies

Saint Augustine’s Sermons 38–41 on the Book of Ben Sira

Jan van den Driessche (Johannes Drusius) 1550–1616 and the Study of the Old Testament in the New

Bibliography of Maarten J.J. Menken (August 2012)

Index of Names

Index of References