Reshaping Jeremiah: Scribal strategies and the prophet like Moses
The prophet like Moses, announced in Deut. 18.15, is placed in a lineage of prophets and ends up as an announcer of Moses’ Torah (e.g. 2 Kgs. 17.13). Deut. 34.10-12 questions this idea by establishing Moses as the unsurpassable prophet. The view of the prophet like Moses as a link in a prophetic cha...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2020, Volume: 44, Issue: 4, Pages: 575-593 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Deuteronomium 18,15
/ Bible. Deuteronomium 34,10-12
/ Apocrypha
/ Pseudepigrapha
/ Jeremiah
/ Prophet
/ Moses
/ Bible. Jeremia 32,16-25
/ New Covenant
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Bibel. Jeremia, 30,2
B prophet like Moses B Keywords Book of Jeremiah B Book of Jeremiah B Jeremiah B Bibel. Jeremia, 1,7cd.9d B Deuteronomy B Jer. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha |
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| Summary: | The prophet like Moses, announced in Deut. 18.15, is placed in a lineage of prophets and ends up as an announcer of Moses’ Torah (e.g. 2 Kgs. 17.13). Deut. 34.10-12 questions this idea by establishing Moses as the unsurpassable prophet. The view of the prophet like Moses as a link in a prophetic chain changes accordingly. By means of three examples (Jer. 1.7cd.9d; 30.2; and 32.16-25), the article will show how the Book of Jeremiah develops the depiction of Jeremiah as the prophet like Moses in response to Deut. 34.10-12. The reshaping of Jeremiah can be ascribed to a scribal enterprise, aimed at creating a substitute for Moses, with the underlying aim of legitimising the promise of the new covenant (31.31-34). Unexpectedly, however, this text has been met with an underwhelming inner- and extra-biblical reception; the last paragraph will suggest a possible answer to what seems a curious paradox. |
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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: 10.1177/0309089219862802 |