Troubling Jeremiah
Troubling Jeremiah presents essays by Jeremiah scholars who are troubled by the biblical book and give the scholarship on Jeremiah trouble in turn. Essays seek to move beyond the Duhm-Mowinckel source criticism of the book to address matters of metaphor, final form, intertextuality, and the relationship of the book to various audiences of readers. Taken together, the 24 essays in this volume press for an end to 'innocent' readings of Jeremiah inasmuch as current models prove inadequate for troubling the very Jeremiah they have already helped to reveal
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Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part I: TEXT-CENTERED READINGS OF JEREMIAH
The Prose Sermons as Hermeneutical Guide to Jeremiah 1-25: The Deconstruction of Judah's Symbolic World
The Function of Chapters 25 and 50-51 in the Book of Jeremiah
Halfway through a Dark Wood: Reflections on Jeremiah 25
Exposing a Buried Subtext in Jeremiah and Lamentations: Going After Baal and ... Abel
Unfaithful Passions: Coding Women Coding Men in Jeremiah 2-3 (4.2)
The Construction of Time in Jeremiah 25 (MT). The Potent Word of God: Remarks on the Composition of Jeremiah 37-44
Black Fire on White Fire: Historical Context and Literary Subtext in Jeremiah 37-38
Poetic Structure and Intertextual Logic in Jeremiah 50
Structure and Redaction in Jeremiah 2-6
Part II: READER-CENTERED READINGS OF JEREMIAH
The Book of J: Intertextuality and Ideological Criticism
When Metaphor Becomes Myth: A Socio-linguistic Reading of Jeremiah
A Rolling Corpus and Oral Tradition: A Not-So-Literate Solution to a Highly Literate Problem. The Amplification of the Expectations of the Exiles in the MT Revision of Jeremiah
Dressed to Be Killed: Jeremiah 4.29-31 as an Example for the Functions of Female Imagery in Jeremiah
Jeremiah in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Part III: THEOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION
The Book of Jeremiah in Old Testament Theology
The Book of Jeremiah and the Power of Historical Recitation
Between the Tower of Unity and the Babel of Pluralism: Biblical Theology and Leo Perdue's The Collapse of History
What Shall We Do about Pluralism? A Response to Leo Perdue's The Collapse of History. The 'Baruch Connection': Reflections on Jeremiah 43.1-7
The Tears of God and Divine Character in Jeremiah 2-9
Part IV: RESPONSE
Next Steps in Jeremiah Studies?
Something Rich and Strange: Imagining a Future for Jeremiah Studies
Index of References
Index of Authors
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