To say that John reuses the Synoptics is to say that he not only knows earlier Gospel texts or that he was influenced by earlier Gospel tradition, but it is to argue that he is dependent on them and rewrites them. Given the myriad types of textual relationships possible in ancient Jewish writings, the study of early Christian compositional practice can be clarified using comparative examples from a similar literary and cultural context. Focusing here on John’s reuse of Mark in particular, I show how the corpus of texts called “Rewritten Scripture” provides analogues for the spectrum of similarity and difference we find between these Gospels. Specific comparisons will be drawn with Jubilees and Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum, highlighting two examples of John’s reuse of Mark in his prologue and his paralytic narrative. Through this, I propose how John’s aim and purpose vis-a-vis Synoptic source material are illuminated through his compositional practices.
This article examines the Russian and Armenian translations of selected poems by Robert Burns, focusing on the versions produced by Samuil Marshak and Vahagn Davtyan. Rather than evaluating the translations in terms of fidelity to the source text, the study approaches them as instances of cultural reinterpretation shap...
Kristine Dadyan, Anush Sedrakyan· Translation Studies Theory a...· 0 citations
Abstract This article argues that vocabulary drawn from Origen is crucial for understanding the opening section of Gregory’s poem On His Own Verses, a poem central to his self-conscious articulation of a classicizing Christian poetics. It also adopts a transposition proposed by Nigel G. Wilson and presents a revised te...
Christos Simelidis· Philologus (Berlin)· 0 citations
Stories about the development of literary study are often stories about methodological rigor. But what does rigor in literary study entail? One answer can be found in the writings of Paul de Man. This article shows how, for de Man,
rigor
is bound up with
philology
, another crucial, if underappreciated, category...
G. Ellermann· Yearbook of Comparative Lite...· 0 citations
Claims that Jesus of Nazareth married Mary Magdalene, fathered biological descendants, and left a bloodline later suppressed by ecclesiastical authorities have moved repeatedly from esoteric literature into popular culture and alternative religious teaching. This article evaluates those claims through a hybrid theologi...
S. Sangwa· Open Journal of Science, Phi...· 0 citations
The article contributes to outlining and defining authorial and performative legacy as literary phenomena that emerged much before the advent of AI but which AI literature itself has brought back to light.
E. R. Chemezova, Francesca Luppino, Rajeshwar Dhanpalwar et al.· 0 citations
