Description:
A methodologically constrained examination of the lexical, syntactical, and conceptual correspondence between the opening chapters of Genesis and Leviticus 11, 16, and 26. Explores the potential rhetorical function of allusion for the texts' original audiences.
Brief description: G. Geoffrey Harper is Lecturer in Old Testament at Sydney Missionary and Bible College.
Review Quotes:
"I wonder if labouring to have allusion that is both intertextual and deliberate is to attempt to reinsert authors into a fundamentally text-orientated hermeneutic, and that what [Harper] offers is one (elegant) reading, rather than a reconstruction of purpose--but that would be to praise [Harper]'s book on terms other than those in which it is offered."
--Richard S. Briggs Journal for the Study of the Old Testament