Reading the Book of Jeremiah: A Search for Coherence

Published by Penn State University Press 2004

Reading the Book of Jeremiah

A Search for Coherence

Edited by: Martin Kessler

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575065564

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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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Editor’s Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
An Approach to the Book of Jeremiah Klaas A. D. Smelik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Toward a Synchronic Analysis of the Masoretic Text of the Book of Jeremiah A. J. O. van der Wal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Getting Closer to Jeremiah: The Word of YHWH and the Literary-Theological Person of a Prophet Joep Dubbink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Jeremiah the Prophet: Astride Two Worlds Louis Stulman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
The Scaffolding of the Book of Jeremiah Martin Kessler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
The Place of the Reader in Jeremiah C. R. Seitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
The Polyphonic Jeremiah: A Reading of the Book of Jeremiah Robert P. Carroll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
The Function of Jeremiah 50 and 51 in the Book of Jeremiah Klaas A. D. Smelik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
A God of Vengeance? Comparing YHWH’s Dealings with Judah and Babylon in the Book of Jeremiah J. G. Amesz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
At the Mercy of Babylon: A Subversive Rereading of the Empire Walter Brueggemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Jeremiah’s Message of Hope: Public Faith and Private Anguish Ronald Clements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
“Your Exile Will Be Long”: The Book of Jeremiah and the Unended Exile John Hill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Divine Reliability and the Conceptual Coherence of the Book of Consolation (Jeremiah 30–31) Bob Becking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Citations from the Book of Jeremiah in the New Testament J. W. Mazurel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Index of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Index of Scripture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 224

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Published: June 23, 2004
ISBN: 9781575065564