Keywords
Old Testament
New Testament
Semitic Biblical Rhetoric Analysis
Beale
Foster
Beetham
Quotes
Allusions
Echoes
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Abstract
The Letter to the Colossians, beyond the question if in fact is deutero-pauline or not, did enter in the middle of the discuss about the Methodology of the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. If during many years it was considered one of the few letters of the corpus paulinum that do not have any quotation from the Old Testament, Beale achieved to find many allusions. Foster critiqued the methodology used in Colossians, which deserved an answer by Beale. However, Beetham confirmed the use detected by Beale, specifying the differentiation between allusion and echo – though analyzing fewer passages from the Old Testament. This article proposes to take one-step beyond, by analyzing how these allusions and echoes are inserted in the letter’s arrangement in according to the Semitic Biblical Rhetoric Analysis. Pauline commentators have increasingly indicated that in Paul rhetoric and theology go together. In fact, in the Pauline letters, rhetoric, indeed, is not just a frame, but a great instrument for transmitting the message of the Risen. According to Meynet, the contribution of Biblical Semitic Rhetorical Analysis allows us to see how the parallelism of the members, the chiasmus and the different levels of a biblical text have their role in the structuring and message of the text. This becomes more efficient when looking to analyze the presence of Old Testament quotes, allusions and echoes in the Novo Testamento, using the method of the Old Testament Use in the New Testament integrated with the Semitic Biblical Rhetorical Analysis, as here in Colossians. They are two distinct methodologies, but they can collaborate a lot in biblical investigations to demonstrate that the absence of Old Testament quotes in this letter was a rhetorical resource used by Paul to offer the reader a magnificent text capable of bringing together Christology, Ecclesiology and the presence of the Old Testament, albeit by means of allusions and echoes, and not by explicit quotations.
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