Ezekiel’s Exagoge and the drama of intertextuality

Maxwell Kramer
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Ezekiel’s Exagoge is unusual as a Greek tragedy not only because it draws on Biblical rather than mythological subject matter but also because it makes such extensive use of an external source for much of its text: the Septuagint. Although the general concept of a Greek tragedy on a Jewish subject has drawn the attention of many scholars, the literary function of the Exagoge’s close relationship with the LXX text remains comparatively unexplored. In this article, I examine in detail several passages which connect the texts. These reveal that Ezekiel’s use of text from the Septuagint is not a symptom of a lack of poetic ingenuity but rather a deliberate literary choice. The intertextual links engage the audience intellectually by encouraging them to consider the ways in which Ezekiel receives, interprets, and occasionally departs from the Biblical text and its associated exegetical traditions. A comparison of Ezekiel’s poetry with that of the Greek poet Callimachus shows that Ezekiel’s engagement with scholarly, interpretational, and literary questions through the medium of poetry reflects the techniques and interests of the so-called Hellenistic poets, the sophisticated non-Jewish writers of his own age.
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以西结的夸张和互文性的戏剧
以西结的《Exagoge》作为一部希腊悲剧是不同寻常的,不仅因为它借鉴了《圣经》而非神话题材,还因为它在大部分文本中广泛使用了外部来源:《Septuagint》。尽管关于犹太主题的希腊悲剧的一般概念已经引起了许多学者的注意,但Exagoge与LXX文本的密切关系的文学功能仍然相对未被探索。在这篇文章中,我详细研究了连接文本的几段文字。这些表明,以西结对《Septuagint》文本的使用并不是缺乏诗歌独创性的症状,而是一种深思熟虑的文学选择。互文联系通过鼓励观众思考以西结接受、解释和偶尔偏离圣经文本及其相关训诫传统的方式,在智力上吸引了观众。将以西结的诗歌与希腊诗人卡利马丘的诗歌进行比较表明,以西结通过诗歌媒介参与学术、解释和文学问题,反映了所谓希腊化诗人的技巧和兴趣,他们是他那个时代成熟的非犹太作家。
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期刊介绍: The last twenty years have witnessed some remarkable achievements in the study of early Jewish literature. Given the ever-increasing number and availability of primary sources for these writings, specialists have been producing text-critical, historical, social scientific, and theological studies which, in turn, have fuelled a growing interest among scholars, students, religious leaders, and the wider public. The only English journal of its kind, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha was founded in 1987 to provide a much-needed forum for scholars to discuss and review most recent developments in this burgeoning field in the academy.
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