Description:
It is the aim of this paper to draw the attention to intertextual similarities between some motifs found in both LXX pretexts and luke's Gospel. Attention is first given to a short retrospection on the methodology of handling the language of the New Testament in the past. Secondly, an intertextual analysis especially of the similarities regarding the syntactical and semantical levels of the language of both the LXX pretext and the text of Luke, is presented regarding two major motifs. i.e. the Desert-motif and the Elijah-motif.