Religious Intertextuality in Arabic and Hebrew Poetry A Comparative Study of Selected Models

Abstract

Intertextuality is one of the seven criteria set by De Beaugrande for textual cohesion. It is based on taking the meaning or quoting some words or complete phrases, whether from previous texts or from books that are important in the lives of people of a certain sect. The Holy Qur’an, with which God Almighty honored the Arab nation, entered into all paths of this nation, such as daily life, trade, and rulings, ..., and this nation also benefited from it in developing its literary aspects because of what it contains of eloquence and miracles that the Arab masters stood before in amazement and bewilderment, as well as the texts of the Old Testament, which the Jews used in their poetic or narrative texts. Therefore, the aim of the research was to know the mechanisms through which religious intertextuality is employed, and the extent of the impact of this employment on the inspired meanings and symbols used, in addition to shedding light on the relationship between the poet and his absent texts, and then monitoring the impact of religious intertextuality on his literary creativity and the depth of the messages he draws, all by analyzing selected models of texts from Arabic and Hebrew poetry. The research relied on the descriptive approach; to show and analyze the quotations that came in both literatures, in addition to the comparative approach; to show the similarities and differences.