Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. The Fate of the Figure of Isaac in the Gospel of Matthew -- 1.1 Traces of Isaac in the Gospel of Matthew -- 1.2 Four Reasons for the Neglect of Isaac in the Gospel of Matthew -- 1.2.1 Redaction Criticism and the Neglect of Narrative Dynamics -- 1.2.2 The Influence of the MT Canon and the Neglect of Extrabiblical Texts and Traditions -- 1.2.3 Debating Definitions and the Dating of the Akedah -- 1.2.4 The Lure of the Formula Quotations and the Neglect of Matthean Allusions -- 1.3 Summary -- Chapter 2. The Model Reader, the Encylopedia and Textual Intention -- 2.1 Umberto Eco: Open Works and Model Readers -- 2.2 The Encyclopedia as Cultural Treasury -- 2.2.1 Dictionaries vs. Encyclopedias -- 2.2.2 The Dictionary as Porphyrian Tree -- 2.2.3 The Encyclopedia as Labyrinth -- 2.3 The Model Reader and the Intention of the Text -- 2.3.1 What the Model Reader Is: The Dialectical Relationship of Text and Encyclopedia -- 2.3.2 What the Model Reader Does: The Process of Reading -- 2.4 Summary -- Chapter 3. The Model Reader, Intertextuality and Biblical Studies -- 3.1 Introduction to Intertextuality -- 3.2 The Implications of Intertextuality: Politics, Play and Biblical Studies -- 3.2.1 Origins and Political Implications -- 3.2.2 From Politics to Play -- 3.2.3 Criticism of the Use of Intertextuality in Biblical Studies -- 3.3 Eco and Intertextuality -- 3.4 Criteria for Perceiving Intertexts -- 3.4.1 Richard Hays's Criteria and Echoes of Scripture -- 3.4.2 Hays's Criteria Revised: Echoes of Scripture and Tradition -- 3.5 Summary -- Chapter 4. The Akedah Prior to the Common Era -- 4.1 The Akedah: Debates, Distortions, Definitions and Dating -- 4.2 Gen 22 MT -- 4.3 Gen 22 LXX -- 4.4 2 Chronicles -- 4.5 Jubilees -- 4.6 4Q225 ('Pseudo-Jubileesa') -- 4.6.1 An Active and Willing Isaac.

4.6.2 Passover/Exodus Connections -- 4.6.3 Soteriological Implications? -- 4.7 Judith -- 4.8 Summary -- Chapter 5. The Akedah in the First Century of the Common Era -- 5.1 Philo -- 5.1.1 Texts Apart from De Abrahamo -- 5.1.2 De Abrahamo -- 5.2 Pseudo-Philo's Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum (L.A.B.) -- 5.2.1 Dating L. A.B -- 5.2.2 Balaam's Divine Encounter -- 5.2.3 Deborah's Song -- 5.2.4 Seila's Sacrifice -- 5.2.5 Summary: The Akedah in L.A.B -- 5.3 4 Maccabees -- 5.3.1 Dating 4 Maccabees -- 5.3.2 The Akedah as Intertextual Resource in 4 Maccabees -- 5.3.3 Summary: The Akedah in 4 Maccabees -- 5.4 Josephus' Antiquities -- 5.5 1 Clement -- 5.6 Summary -- Chapter 6. The Figure of Isaac in the First Chapter of the Gospel of Matthew -- 6.1 Matthean Preliminaries -- 6.2 Matt 1:1: "Son of Abraham" -- 6.3 Matt 1:2-17: The Matthean Genealogy -- 6.4 Matt 1:18-25: The Extraordinary Conceptions of Two Promised Children -- 6.5 Summary -- Chapter 7. The Baptism of God's Beloved Son -- 7.1 Verbal Correspondence: The Intertextual Disposition of the Heavenly Voice -- 7.1.1 Verbal Correspondence between Matt 3:17 and Gen 22:2, 11-12, 15-16 -- 7.1.2 The Critical Consensus on the Intertextual Disposition of the Heavenly Voice: Ps 2:7 and Isa 42:1 -- 7.1.3 The Model Reader's Preliminary Conclusions -- 7.2 Thematic Coherence: Echoes of the Akedah Produced by the Allusion -- 7.2.1 Threat, Obedience, Righteousness -- 7.2.2 The Testing Narrative: Obedience and Cross -- 7.2.3 Sacrifice and Soteriology -- 7.3 Summary -- Chapter 8. The Suffering Servant and Matthean Christology -- 8.1 Questioning the Significance of the Suffering Servant -- 8.2 The Dearth of the Servant in the Encyclopedia of Early Judaism -- 8.2.1 Literature apart from Isaiah -- 8.2.2 Isaiah: MT, LXX, Targum -- 8.2.3 Summary.

8.3 Matthean Quotations of Isaianic "Servant" Material: Healing and Gentile Inclusion -- 8.3.1 Matt 8:17 and Isa 53:4a -- 8.3.2 Matt 12:17-21 and Isa 42:1-4 -- 8.3.3 Allusions to the Servant? -- 8.3.4 Summary -- 8.4 Summary: ὁ ἀγαπητός μου in Matt 12:18 -- Chapter 9. The Transfiguration of the Beloved Son -- 9.1 The Heavenly Voice as Theologia Crucis -- 9.2 A New Moses? -- 9.2.1 Evaluating the Moses Typology -- 9.2.2 Alternative Possibilities for Potential Mosaic Allusions -- 9.2.3 "Listen to him": A Prophet like Moses or a Sacrifice like Isaac? -- 9.2.4 Other Possibilities -- 9.2.5 Summary -- 9.3 The Matthean Transfiguration in Intratextual Perspective: Sonship, Obedience, Cross -- 9.4 The Matthean Transfiguration in Intertextual Perspective: The New Isaac -- 9.5 Summary -- Chapter 10. Endurance unto Death: The Paschal Passion of the Beloved Son -- 10.1 Obedience, Passover and the Akedah -- 10.2 The Passion Narrative and the Obedience of the Matthean Jesus -- 10.3 The Passover Sacrifice of the Beloved Son -- 10.4 Gethsemane and Arrest: The Ultimate Obedience of the Beloved Son -- 10.5 Summary -- Chapter 11. Conclusions and Reflections on the Gospel of Matthew and the Figure of Isaac -- 11.1 Summary: The Figure of Isaac in the First Gospel -- 11.2 Concerns for Further Consideration: Soteriology and Temple -- 11.2.1 The Figure of Isaac and the Shape of Matthean Soteriology -- 11.2.2 Jesus, Isaac and the Temple -- Bibliography -- Index.