RT Article
T1 Reshaping Jeremiah: Scribal strategies and the prophet like Moses
JF Journal for the study of the Old Testament
VO 44
IS 4
SP 575
OP 593
A1 Rossi, Benedetta 1975-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1699337152
AB 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.
K1 Bibel. Jeremia, 30,2
K1 Keywords Book of Jeremiah
K1 Deuteronomy
K1 Jer. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
K1 Jeremiah
K1 prophet like Moses
K1 Book of Jeremiah
K1 Bibel. Jeremia, 1,7cd.9d
DO 10.1177/0309089219862802