The book of Jeremiah: composition, reception, and interpretation
Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface /Jack R. Lundbom , Craig A. Evans and Bradford A. Anderson -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- General Topics -- The Pen of Scribes: Writing, Textuality, and the Book of Jeremiah /Mark Leuchter -- Jeremiah Among the Prophets /Marvin A. Sweeney -- Jer...
| Summary: | Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface /Jack R. Lundbom , Craig A. Evans and Bradford A. Anderson -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- General Topics -- The Pen of Scribes: Writing, Textuality, and the Book of Jeremiah /Mark Leuchter -- Jeremiah Among the Prophets /Marvin A. Sweeney -- Jeremiah – “The Prophet like Moses”? /Georg Fischer -- Issues in Interpretation -- Jeremiah at Mizpah of Benjamin (Tell en-Naṣbeh): The Archaeological Setting* /Jeffrey R. Zorn -- Messianic Expectations in the Book of Jeremiah? The Productive Memory of David /Bob Becking -- Sagacious Divine Judgment: Jeremiah’s Use of Proverbs to Construct an Ethos and Ethics of Divine Epistemology /Samuel E. Balentine -- Structure in the Confessions of Jeremiah /Catherine Sze Wing So -- Reconsidering the “New Covenant” in Jeremiah 31:31–34 /Magnar Kartveit -- Yet Another New Covenant: Jeremiah’s Use of Deuteronomy and שוב שבות/שבית in the Book of Consolation /Amanda R. Morrow and John F. Quant -- The Rechabites in the Book of Jeremiah and Their Historical Roots in Israel /Herbert B. Huffmon -- Language and Rhetoric in Jeremiah’s Foreign Nation Oracles /Jack R. Lundbom -- What is Israel’s God Up To among the Nations? Jeremiah 46, 48, and 49 /Paul R. Raabe -- Textual Transmission and Reception History -- The Text of Jeremiah (MT and LXX) /Andrew G. Shead -- Texts of Jeremiah in the Qumran Library /Armin Lange -- Jeremiah in Jesus and the New Testament /Craig A. Evans -- Jeremiah in Targum /Robert Hayward -- Jeremiah in the Peshitta /Gillian Greenberg -- Jeremiah in the Old Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha /Sean A. Adams -- Jeremiah and His Book in Josephus’s Writings* /Michael Avioz -- Jeremiah in the Latin /David L. Everson -- Medieval Christian Interpretation of the Book of Jeremiah /Joy A. Schroeder -- Jeremiah and Theology -- Jeremiah as Mediator of the Covenant* /Jack R. Lundbom -- Jeremiah’s God Has a Past, a Present, and a Future /Terence E. Fretheim -- God and Place in Jeremiah /David J. Reimer. Written by leading experts in the field, The Book of Jeremiah: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation offers a wide-ranging treatment of the main aspects of Jeremiah. Its twenty-four essays fall under four main sections. The first section contains studies of a more general nature, and helps situate Jeremiah in the scribal culture of the ancient world, as well as in relation to the Torah and the Hebrew Prophets. The second section contains commentary on and interpretation of specific passages (or sections) of Jeremiah, as well as essays on its genres and themes. The third section contains essays on the textual history and reception of Jeremiah in Judaism and Christianity. The final section explores various theological aspects of the book of Jeremiah |
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| ISBN: | 9004373276 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004373273 |