Intertextuality and Its Different Facets in the Narrative Analysis of the Book of Esther and 3 Maccabees

• Authors: Mariola Trojanowska

Abstracts

PL

Choć pełna interpretacja księgi Estery nastręcza wielu trudności podczas analizy, jednym z kluczowych i dobrze rozpoznanych aspektów jest jej identyfikacja jako tekstu uzasadniającego żydowskie święto Purim. Ta rola księgi sprawiła również, że odegrała ona istotną rolę w kształtowaniu innych podobnych żydowskich pism, stworzonych w celu podtrzymania tradycji i celebracji określonych świąt wśród Żydów żyjących w diasporze. W niniejszym artykule przeanalizowane zostały podobieństwa pomiędzy księgą Estery a apokryficzną 3 Księgą Machabejską, która została spisana dla Żydów w Aleksandrii. Podczas gdy ten temat był już kilkukrotnie opisywany w literaturze, w niniejszym artykule nacisk położony został na analizę podobieństwa w narracji obu ksiąg. W tym celu zidentyfikowanych zostało pięć głównych elementów podobieństwa narracyjnego, jak również przedstawione zostały liczne dodatkowe fragmenty paralelne. Dyskusja nad rozmieszczeniem tych fragmentów w różnych wersjach księgi Estery pozwala dodatkowo wzmocnić argumenty na rzecz pochodzenia 3 Księgi Machabejskiej z dojrzałej wersji tekstu Księgi Estery.

EN

While the interpretation of the book of Esther has posed many challenges in the past, a key and well-recognized aspect of this text is that it presents a narrative behind one of the most important Jewish holidays, namely, Purim. As such, it also strongly influenced Jewish culture, including similar texts written to cultivate Jewish traditions in the diaspora. In this article, an analysis of possible intertextual connections between Esther and the apocryphal book of 3 Maccabees is presented. The latter was likely written for Jews living in Alexandria. While this topic has been studied in the past by several authors, in this article emphasis is laid on narrative similarity between both books. In particular, five key elements of this similarity have been identified, and additional parallel fragments have been presented. Their distribution and their likely origin from different versions of the book of Esther support claims about the possible origin of 3 Maccabees from a mature version of Esther.

Keywords

PL

Księga Estery; 3 Księga Machabejska; intertekstualność; wspólna opowieść prototypiczna

EN

book of Esther; 3 Maccabees; intertextuality; common prototypical narrative

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Collectanea Theologica
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 93
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 37-55

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Mariola Trojanowska

• Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie

• https://orcid.org/0000000264949325

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Identifiers

DOI

10.21697/ct.2023.93.2.02

Biblioteka Nauki

28394727