From “Linguistic Turn” and Hebrews Scholarship to Anadiplosis Iterata: The Enigma of a Structure

摘要

In 1963, when the “linguistic turn” had evidently taken hold of New Testamentnstudies, Albert Vanhoye, a linguistically trained Catholic priest, published anmonograph entitled La structure littéraire de l’閜顃re aux Hébreux.1 The manifoldnreactions to his refined literary-rhetorical approach and conclusions in favor of anconcentric structure oscillated between euphoric approval and offensive disapproval.nAlong with its translation into German (1979/1980) and a decade later into Englishn(1989), Vanhoye’s study influenced and stimulated Hebrews scholarship like nonenother in the twentieth century