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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
Contents
Preface
Editor's Introduction
An Approach to the Book of Jeremiah Klaas A. D. Smelik
Toward a Synchronic Analysis of the Masoretic Text of the Book of Jeremiah A. J. O. van der Wal
Getting Closer to Jeremiah: The Word of Yhwh and the Literary-Theological Person of a Prophet Joep Dubbink
Jeremiah the Prophet: Astride Two Worlds Louis Stulman
The Scaffolding of the Book of Jeremiah Martin Kessler
The Place of the Reader in Jeremiah C. R. Seitz
The Polyphonic Jeremiah: A Reading of the Book of Jeremiah Robert P. Carroll
The Function of Jeremiah 50 and 51 in the Book of Jeremiah Klaas A. D. Smelik
A God of Vengeance? Comparing Yhwh's Dealings with Judah and Babylon in the Book of Jeremiah J. G. Amesz
At the Mercy of Babylon: A Subversive Rereading of the Empire Walter Brueggemann
Jeremiah's Message of Hope: Public Faith and Private Anguish Ronald Clements
"Your Exile Will Be Long": The Book of Jeremiah and the Unended Exile John Hill
Divine Reliability and the Conceptual Coherence of the Book of Consolation (Jeremiah 30-31) Bob Becking
Citations from the Book of Jeremiah in the New Testament J. W. Mazurel
Bibliography
Index of Authors
Index of Scripture
