ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book. The book sketches the main ideas argued in studies on the synoptic problem, and briefly outlines textual examples for an examination of literary dependency and creative reworking. Luke differs from a traditional rewritten Scripture text because the author does not rewrite an entire narrative portion of the Hebrew Bible and the OT, but rather rewrites gospel narratives. Nevertheless, Luke shares the midrashic mode of interpretation with rewritten Scripture and the strategy of rewriting a narrative which has a certain status. Bloch argues that the gospels develop their sources narratively in a way comparable to what she defines as the midrashic tradition. The book defines the method of a literary strategy common to rewritten Scripture. It proposes to distinguish between Matthew and Luke as the hypo- and hypertext in Genette’s terminology.
