Jeremiah : A Fresh Reading

by Holladay, William L.

• ISBN13: 9781608992072
• ISBN10: 1608992071
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-01
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Summary

In this careful reconstruction of the prophet Jeremiah's life and work, Professor Holladay attempts to sort out Jeremiah's utterances chronologically and to hear them as closely as possible within the context of the events of their time. Jeremiah is a model for us to understand the prophets of the Old Testament. But more than that, he alone of the prophets saw his relationship with God as a problem to be grappled with rather than an obligation to be taken for granted. His willingness to question and to doubt was unique and, Holladay suggests, may put him more in step with our time than his own. For while many of us are willing to undertake a life of faith lived under God's guidance, few of us do not at some point question God's ways.

Author Biography

William L. Holladay was for twenty-seven years the Lowry Professor of Old Testament at the Andover Newton Theological School; he taught for seven years at the Near East School of Theology in Beirut; and he served on the Old Testament Panel of the Committee for the translation of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. He is the author of Isaiah, and the two-volume Jeremiah commentary in the Hermeneia series.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Jeremiah and His World	p. 1
The Prophet Like Moses	p. 8
A Sermon at the Temple	p. 25
God's People Turn Their Backs	p. 36
God Plans War on Judah, and Jeremiah Dictates a Scroll	p. 53
Rumors of War, and the Onset of a Drought	p. 66
The King Burns the Scroll, and God Sets the Plan in Motion	p. 78
Priests and Prophets against Jeremiah, and Jeremiah against God	p. 91
Pray for the Peace of Babylon	p. 104
To Build and to Plant	p. 118
The Fall of Jerusalem, and the Passion of Jeremiah	p. 133
Prophet Out of Time	p. 147
Scripture Index	p. 167
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