246 Michael A. Lyons inversion, describes the function of this technique as follows: “we can say that in an existing formulation (a sentence, a colon, an established expression, a rare combination of words) the author reverses the sequence. And by this deviating model he attains a moment of extra attention in the listener (or the reader), because the latter hears something else than the traditional words” (4). In the following example, adjacent clauses from the Holiness Code appear as inverted adjacent clauses in the book of Ezekiel: And the land will give its produce, and the trees of the field will give their fruit (Lev 26,4b). And the trees of the field will give their fruit, and the land will give its produce (Ezek 34,27a). Another inversion occurs a few verses earlier in Ezek 34; here we find locutions from non-adjacent clauses in the Holiness Code: And your threshing will overtake the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will overtake the sowing, and you will eat your bread to the full, and you will live securely in your land. And I will put peace in the land, and you will lie down and there will be no one who terrifies. And I will finish off wild animals from the land, and the sword will not pass through your land (Lev 26,5-6). And I will make a covenant of peace for them, and I will finish off wild animals from the land, and they will live securely in the wilderness, and they will sleep in the forests (Ezek 34,25). In the following example, locutions from Lev 26,9 are inverted in Ezek 36,11, with a change in verbal stem and person (5): Wisconsin-Madison 2005) 44-57, 74-82; A. KLOSTERMANN, “Ezechiel und das Heiligkeitsgesetz”, in Der Pentateuch. Beiträge zu seinem Verständnis und seiner Entstehungsgeschichte (Leipzig 1893) 386-402; L. PATON, “The Holiness Code and Ezekiel”, The Presbyterian and Reformed Review 26 (1896) 110-114; S. DRIVER, An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament (Cleveland 1956) 145-151; J. MILGROM, Leviticus 23–27 (AB 3B; New York 2001) 2348-2362. (3) Named after M. Seidel, who noticed this inversion in his study of shared locutions in Isaiah and Psalms; see “Parallels between Isaiah and Psalms”, Sinai 38 (1955-56) 150. (4) P. BEENTJES, “Discovering a New Path of Intertextuality: Inverted Quotations and their Dynamics”, in Literary Structure and Rhetorical Strategy in the Hebrew Bible (ed. L. DE REGT – J. DE WAARD – J. FOKKELMAN) (Assen 1996) 49. Beentjes found numerous examples in the Hebrew Bible, in the Septuagint, in literature found at Qumran, and in the New Testament. Others who have noted the presence of inversion in innerbiblical allusion include S. TALMON, “The Textual Study of the Bible — A New Outlook”, in Qumran and the History of the Biblical Text (ed. F. CROSS – S. TALMON) (Cambridge 1975) 358-378; B. LEVINSON, Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation (New York 1997) 18- 20, 35; and I. KALIMI, The Reshaping of Ancient Israelite History in Chronicles (Winona Lake, Ind. 2005) 232-274. (5) The locution “be fruitful and multiply” is not unique to H and Ezekiel (cf. Gen 1,22.28; 8,17; 9,1.7; 17,20; 28,3; 35,11; 47,27; 48,4; Exod 1,7; Jer 3,16; 23,3). However, it is virtually certain that the source of this locution in Ezek 36,11 is Lev 26,9, seeing as Ezekiel is aware of the context in H: the locution “I will turn to you” (µkyla) ytynpw), also from Lev 26,9, is found two verses earlier in Ezek 36,9.