Jeremiah Invented Constructions and Deconstructions of Jeremiah

by Holt, Else K.; Sharp, Carolyn J.

• ISBN13: 9780567448514
• ISBN10: 0567448517
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-03-26
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

In the first half of the 20th century there was immense scholarly interest in the biography of the prophet Jeremiah as the background for understanding the development of the book of Jeremiah. Around the turn of the century this interest disappeared, but it has now resurfaced in a transformed configuration as work seeking to analyze the creation of the literary persona, Jeremiah the prophet.

This volume examines the construction of Jeremiah in the prophetic book and its afterlife, presenting a wide range of scholarly approaches spanning the understanding of Jeremiah from Old Testament times via the Renaissance to the 20th century, and from theology to the history of literature.

Author Biography

Else K. Holt is Associate Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has published several articles on the theology of Jeremiah and its reception in both English and Danish. She isthe co-editor with Paul Kim and Andrew Mein of 'Declare ye among the Nations...': The Oracles against the Nations in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel (forthcoming LHBOTS; 2013).

Carolyn J. Sharp is Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at Yale Divinity School, USA. Among her books are Prophecyand Ideology in Jeremiah (2003) and Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible (2009). She is co-editor with Christl M. Maier of Prophecy and Power: Jeremiah in Feminist and Postcolonial Perspective (LHBOTS 577; 2013).

Table of Contents

Introduction - Else K. Holt and Carolyn J. Sharp
1. Treacherous Waters: Jeremiah's Confessions Revisited - Kathleen M. O'Connor(Columbia Theological Seminary, USA)
2. Deathscape and Lament in the Jeremianic Corpus - Mary E. Mills (Liverpool Hope University, UK)
3. Sunk in the Mud - Barbara Green (Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, USA)
4. And the Flesh became Word - Mark Brummitt (Colgate Rochester Crozer DivinitySchool, USA)
5. Art, Atrocity, and the Book of Jeremiah - Louis Stulman (University ofFindlay, USA)
6. Jeremiah Lamenting - Else K. Holt (Aarhus University, Denmark)
7. Duhm's and Skinner's Invention of Jeremiah - Joe Henderson (BiolaUniversity, La Mirada, USA)
8. Stefan Zweig's Jeremiah - David Jobling (independent scholar)
9. Bare Naked: A Gender Analysis of the Exposed Body of Jeremiah - Amy Kalmanofsky (Jewish Theological Seminary, USA)
10. Prophetic Sign Acts and Performances in Modern Art - Johanna Erzberger (Institut Catholique de Paris, France)
Bibliography
Author Index
Scripture Index