My current research projects have led me to briefly engage the topic of intertextuality. Patristic intertextuality provides a conundrum of complications. Are texts readily available? Geographically available? What other conflations have patristic authors introduced? And others. (More to follow on such questions).
A few books are helpful to engaging this conversation, and upon further inquiry, will hopefully point to others. David Nienhuis, Not By Paul Alone: The Formation of the Catholic Epistle Collection and the Christian Canon, briefly engages such questions. Nienhuis gives his personal 5-fold methodology (29–32). (Brian Renshaw engages this chapter) Continue reading
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