Full Description
Jeremiah (Dis)Placed collects the best of the papers and responses presented to the 2007 and 2008 sessions of the Writing/Reading Jeremiah Group (SBL) offering an assessment of new interpretative directions in current Jeremiah Studies.
The Writing/Reading Jeremiah group was re-launched at the 2007 annual meeting of the SBL. Its purpose is to invite new readings and constructions of meaning with the book of Jeremiah "this side" of historicist paradigms and postmodernism. The group welcomes all strategies of reading Jeremiah that seek to reconfigure, redeploy, and move beyond conventional readings of Jeremiah. Their manifesto: not by compositional history alone, nor biographical portrayal alone, nor their accompanying theological superstructures; rather, we seek interpretation from new spaces opened for reading Jeremiah by the postmodern turn.
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List of Contributors
Part I: Critical Introduction
A. R. Pete Diamond and Louis Stulman, Analytical Introduction-Writing & Reading Jeremiah
Part II: Theorizing the Ancient and Modern Reader in/of the Scroll of Jeremiah
Carolyn J. Sharp, Jeremiah in the Land of Aporia: Reconfiguring Redaction Criticism as Witness to Foreignness
Yvonne Sherwood and Mark Brummitt, The Fear of Loss Inherent in Writing: Jeremiah 36 as the Story of a Self-Conscious Scroll
Kathleen M. O'Connor, Terror All Around: Confusion as Meaning-Making
Ehud Ben Zvi, Would Ancient Readers of the Books of Hosea or Micah be "Competent" to Read the Book of Jeremiah?
Respondent to preceding four--Louis Stulman, Here Comes the Reader
John Hill, The Dynamics of Written Discourse and Book of Jeremiah MT
Part III: Diaspora and Resistance in Jeremiah
Daniel Smith-Christopher, Jeremiah as Frantz Fanon
Else Holt, Narrative Normativity in Diasporic Jeremiah--and Today
William Domeris, The Land Claim of Jeremiah: Was Max Weber Right?
Steed Vernyl Davidson, Chosen Marginality as Resistance in Jeremiah 40:1-6
Steed Vernyl Davidson, Ambivalence and Temple Destruction: Reading the Book of Jeremiah with Homi Bhabha
Part IV: Hope, Utopia and the Fantasy of Violence in Jeremiah
Mark Brummitt, Troubling Utopias: Possible Worlds and Possible Voices in the Book of Jeremiah
Amy Kalmanofsky, The Monstrous-Feminine in the Book of Jeremiah
Else K. Holt, King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, My Servant, and the Cup of Wrath: Jeremiah's Fantasies and the Hope of Violence
Alice Ogden Bellis, Assaulting the Empire: A Refugee Community's Language of Hope
Respondent to preceding four: Erin Runions, Prophetic Affect and the Promise of Change: A Response
Barrie Bowman, Future Imagination: Utopianism in the Book of Jeremiah
Part V: Intertextuality, Reception & History of Interpretation
Hannes Bezzel, "Man of Constant Sorrow" — Rereading Jeremiah in Lamentations 3
Mary Chilton Callaway, Reading Jeremiah with Some Help from Gadamer
Mary Chilton Callaway, Peering Inside Jeremiah: How Early Modern English Culture Still Influences Our Reading of the Prophet
Mary E. Shields, Impasse or Opportunity or ...? Women Reading Jeremiah Reading Women
Respondent to Mary E. Shields-- Athalya Brenner, Response to Mary Shields: About 'Jeremiah' as Reflected in Feminist Eyes
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