paleotestamentary

There was a time when biblical religion (paleotestamentary and neotestamentary alike) was studied almost exclusively in terms of individual faith.

1954 January, Samuel Lucien Terrien, “A Currently Neglected Aspect of Biblical Theology”, in Union Seminary Quarterly Review, page 7

We have also consulted the sources themselves. For our purpose, these were the works of Josephus (the Jewish War, the Jewish Antiquities, and the Life), the New Testament, and certain sections of the palaeotestamentary literature—partly apocalyptic in nature—not included in the Canon.

1957, “The Futurists”, in Willard R[opes] Trask, transl., Man at the Crossroads, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, translation of El hombre en la encrucijada by José Ferrater Mora, →LCCN, part I (Philosophy, Anxiety, and Renewal), page 64

In the floor, funeral slabs by Tommaso Pecci (XIV cent.) and broken fragments of the original floor of the Duomo (notably the Age of man by [Antonio] Federighi, 1475, and the Paleotestamentary episodes by [Domenico] Beccafumi).

1982, “Metropolitan Museum of Art”, in Studio Sandonà, transl., Siena: Its Art, Its Palio, Siena: Editions R.I.S., Italo Romboni, translation of Siena: son art, son palio by Sandro Chierichetti, section “Ground floor”, page 62, column 1

Tomorrow, if I want to write this preface, I will set myself to running down all the paleo- and neo-testamentary courriers.

1987, “Envois”, in Alan Bass, transl., The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, translation of La carte postale: De Socrate à Freud et au-delà by Jacques Derrida, →ISBN, section “7 September 1977”, page 75

But I am headed rather toward the testament. Specifically, toward the stories of legacy or delegation on the inside, as en abyme, of what is called the neo- or the paleo-testamentary.

1993, Pascale-Anne Brault, Michael Naas, transl., Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-Portrait and Other Ruins (Parti-pris series from the Louvre), Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, translation of Mémoires d’aveugle: L’autoportrait et autres ruines by Jacques Derrida, →ISBN, page 21