Reading the Book of Jeremiah
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Reading the Book of Jeremiah

A Search for Coherence

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Reading the Book of Jeremiah

A Search for Coherence

About this book

Ferment is the correct word by which to characterize current Jeremiah studies, a deep and broad stirring that relies on previous scholarship but that seeks to move beyond that scholarship in bold and new ways. This collection of fine essays not only reflects that ferment but in important ways contributes to it and advances the discussion.

Most broadly, the current discussion seeks to move beyond the historical-critical categories of Sigmund Mowinckel and Bernhard Duhm and the classic formulation of three sources, A, B, and C. In Jeremiah as in other parts of biblical scholarship, the new questions concern the inadequacy of historical-critical readings of a positivistic kind and the prospect of synchronic readings, either through ideological analysis that seeks to show that ideology shapes the book, or through canonical readings that find a large theological intentionality to the whole of the book. It turns out, perforce, that ideological and canonical readings are closely twinned in their judgment about the literature.

This present collection, which includes both new voices and some of the established major players in the discussion, merits important attention." From the preface, by Walter Brueggemann

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Information

Publisher
Eisenbrauns
Year
2004
Print ISBN
9781575060989
eBook ISBN
9781575065564
Topic
History
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1: An Approach to the Book of Jeremiah
  8. Chapter 2: Toward a Synchronic Analysis of the Masoretic Text of the Book of Jeremiah
  9. Chapter 3: Getting Closer to Jeremiah: The Word of YHWH and the Literary-Theological Person of a Prophet
  10. Chapter 4: Jeremiah the Prophet: Astride Two Worlds
  11. Chapter 5: The Scaffolding of the Book of Jeremiah
  12. Chapter 6: The Place of the Reader in Jeremiah
  13. Chapter 7: The Polyphonic Jeremiah: A Reading of the Book of Jeremiah
  14. Chapter 8: The Function of Jeremiah 50 and 51 in the Book of Jeremiah
  15. Chapter 9: A God of Vengeance? Comparing YHWH’s Dealings with Judah and Babylon in the Book of Jeremiah
  16. Chapter 10: At the Mercy of Babylon: A Subversive Rereading of the Empire
  17. Chapter 11: Jeremiah’s Message of Hope: Public Faith and Private Anguish
  18. Chapter 12: “Your Exile Will Be Long”: The Book of Jeremiah and the Unended Exile
  19. Chapter 13: Divine Reliability and the Conceptual Coherence of the Book of Consolation (Jeremiah 30–31)
  20. Chapter 14: Citations from the Book of Jeremiah in the New Testament
  21. Bibliography
  22. Indexes