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

NT and Jewish sources such that we may be able to construct
a Traditionsgeschichte
for each citation.
But not only are we concerned with the individual
citations as such;
our investigation thus far has
indicated the existence of a separate tradition in
which the citations from both Psalms were conflated.
We shall also attempt to establish the Traditionsgeschichte
for this conflated tradition.
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attempt this our concern will be with theological and
not historical development.
Although in some
instances it may well be that the development is
historical, it is equally possible that in others we
may find that the most theologically developed strand
cf the traoition may well occur at a comparatively
early juncture in the growth of the tradition.
In
each instance our concern will be to discover a development
such that the tr~dition
found in Eph 1:20-23 can
be considered as an end-point of that theological
development.
4.1 Psalm 109:1
The Psalm reference in Eph 1:20 is
allusive, not one single word of the LXX version of
the Psalm is exactly reproduced.
There is no introductory
formula to indicate that an OT text is being
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referred to; the allusion or reference is incorporated
into the author's flow of language without
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