A detailed intertextual analysis of the links between Mt 2:13-15 and the Lucan text of Acts 3 leads to the conclusion that the text of Mt 2:13-15 is an outcome of a strictly sequential, but on the other hand a highly creative reworking of the ideas, motifs, and key words which occur in Acts 3. Therefore, it can be argued that the quotation from LXX Hos 11:1, which concludes the text of Mt 2:13-15, was used and consciously modified by Matthew in order to illustrate intertextually the Lucan ideas which are contained in the concluding part of Acts 3: the fulfilment in Jesus of that which God foretold by the prophets (Acts 3:18,21), Jesus as the new Prophet like Moses (Acts 3:22-24), and Jesus being in a particular relationship with God (Acts 3:25-26).
Keywords:
Intertextual analysis, quotations, The Book of Hosea, Infancy Narratives, The Acts of the Apostles
Adamczewski, B. (2017). The Intertextual Function of the Quotation from the Book of Hosea in the Matthean Infancy Narrative. Collectanea Theologica, 86(4), 125–138. https://doi.org/10.21697/ct.2016.86.4.06
https://doi.org/10.21697/ct.2016.86.4.06
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