What Is Euthalius Use In Pauline Letters?

The inconsistencies of the field of intertextuality and their implications for definitions in modern scholarship could take up an entire research paper alone. However, since the primary purpose of this study is to make observations about the methodology that Euthalius used in his longer quotation list for the Pauline letters, a brief section on this study’s methodology is most necessary. Keeping the previous background information in mind, several scholars have attempted to set forth methods for identifying quotations. Some of these methods have been general, such as Steve Moyise’s identification of marked and unmarked quotations. According to Moyise, “Marked quotations are introduced by an introductory formula (IF), which might be elaborate... or a single word.”37 Conversely, Moyise described unmarked quotations as being “woven into the author’s prose,” yet also being “identified by close verbal parallels to another text.”38
Similarly, after defining quotation as “a direct citation of an OT passage that …show more content…
These criteria may be synthesized into four questions descending in order of clarity. First, borrowing Porter’s first category, does the proposed quotation possess an introductory formula? As one can see in the previous discussion, Porter considered the word count to be largely irrelevant, although a minimum of three words is preferable. Second, if the quotation does not include an introductory formula, does the wording replicate at least three consecutive words from the presumed vorlage? Third, borrowing from Stanley’s criteria, if no introductory formula or a minimum of three words borrowed from the perceived vorlage are present, then does the surrounding text include an interpretive gloss? Finally, if all of the previous questions are answered negatively, then does the syntax of the suggested quote differ from the syntax of its context in the Pauline