%0 Journal Article
%T From text to intertext: Intertextuality as a paradigm for reading Matthew
%A Stefan Alkier
%J HTS Theological Studies/Teologiese Studies
%D 2009
%I AOSIS OpenJournals
%R 10.4102/hts.v61i1/2.421
%X In this article intertextuality is introduced as one important part of a theory of the semiotics of biblical texts. Intertextuality is an essential factor for the generation of the meanings of a text in the acts of the production and reception of a text. It opens the internal structure of a text with regard to its relations to other texts. The semiotic concept of intertextuality distinguishes three ways of intertextual readings: production-oriented intertextuality, reception-oriented intertextuality and experimental intertextuality. This wide but differentiated concept of intertextuality can serve as a theory and helpful method for investigations of the history of biblical texts as well as for reflected school lessons, sermons and poetics in today¡¯s times. An intertextual reading of the first chapter of Matthew provides a test case of this semiotic concept of intertextuality.
%U http://www.hts.org.za/index.php/HTS/article/view/421