P. Derek Overfield PhD Thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

applied to a completely different contemporary situation
was also well known both in Rabbinic Judaism
and in Qumran.
We have thus established that the
features present not only in Rom 10:6-8, but also in
both the citation of Ps 67:19 in Eph 4:8 and the
interpretative comment which follows, Eph 4:9-10 are
both part of the tradition of Rabbinic Judaism. 125
3.2 Linguistic Considerations
Notwithstanding the conclusions we have
reached above, there is a strong body of opinion that
would argue that both and are
'cechnical ';lOraS for the IT,otifs of Ascent and Descent
that have their source not in Jewish thought at all,
but ra-t::'[1er in -the ccho-c.ght forms more frequ.ent:ly
-,-Ii th that type of first - or second - century though
- 1 d..c . d'G .. I 126
more genera~ y eLlne as nostlclsm. It is
to these linguistic considerations that we now turn.
Our procedure will be as follows:
in each case we
shall examine the word as it occurs in the NT, paying
particular attention to John and Paul, with a special
emphasis being given to instances where both a.,va.;3a.Cv.:;w
appear together and are obviously to
be considered as part of the &:vG..~dViSf,.V
motif.
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