Does Jeremiah dispel diaspora demons? How Septuagint Jeremiah and 4Q71 (4QJerb) rewrote their text structures around an Aramaic war taunt which mocks Zion's idolatry
MT Jer. 10:1-18's structure demonstrates a more original contextual treatment of 10:11's Aramaic gibe (cf. 4Q70 [4QJera]) than that of LXX, or of 4Q71 (4QJerb). The Aramaic initially functioned as a foreign war taunt pronounced upon Zion's idolatry within the intricate framework of 10...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2019, Volume: 43, Issue: 3, Pages: 395-416 |
| Further subjects: | B
demonic adjuration
B 4Q70 (4QJera) B 11Q5's 'Hymn to the Creator' (HC) B LXX (Septuagint) B war taunt B Jeremiah B Aramaic B MT (Masoretic Text) B 4Q71 (4QJerb) B Epistle of Jeremiah (Ep Jer) |
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| Summary: | MT Jer. 10:1-18's structure demonstrates a more original contextual treatment of 10:11's Aramaic gibe (cf. 4Q70 [4QJera]) than that of LXX, or of 4Q71 (4QJerb). The Aramaic initially functioned as a foreign war taunt pronounced upon Zion's idolatry within the intricate framework of 10:2-16's victorious battle hymn. In contrast, LXX 10:1-18 and 4Q71 emphasize 10:11 in their structural placements of 10:9 within 10:5, along with necessary deletions (e.g. 10:6-8 and 10:10). Thereby, LXX 10:11 represents a demonic adjuration against idols (i.e. idolatry's evil spirits). Modern scholarship has usually sought to explain 10:11 as a later scribal interpolation along with other pre-MT redactional expansions. However, we propose that LXX Jeremiah and 4Q71 represent rewritten scriptural compositions in contrast to the official proto-MT edition, especially in 10:1-18's case. Thus, the original tone and sophisticated antithetical parallelism of Jer. 10:12-16's ancient hymn is reflected in MT's earlier text form. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-6728 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0309089217734747 |