The Oxford Handbook of Jeremiah

by Stulman, Louis; Silver, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780190693060
• ISBN10: 0190693061
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-11-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Book of Jeremiah is one of the longest, most complex and influential writings in the Hebrew Bible. It comprises poetic oracles, prose sermons, and narratives of the prophet, as well as laments, symbolic actions, and utterances of hope from one of the most turbulent periods in the history of ancient Judah and Israel.

Written by some of the most influential contemporary biblical interpreters today, The Oxford Handbook of Jeremiah offers compelling new readings of the text informed by a rich variety of methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks. In presenting discussions of the Book of Jeremiah in terms of its historical and cultural contexts of origins, textual and literary history, major internal themes, reception history, and significance for a number of key political issues, The Handbook examines the fascinating literary tradition of the Book of Jeremiah while also surveying recent scholarship. The result is a synthetic anthology that offers a significant contribution to the field as well as an indispensable resource for scholars and non-specialists alike.

Author Biography

Louis Stulman is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy at the University of Findlay in Ohio. His teaching and research interests focus on the prophetic corpus in the Hebrew Bible as disaster and survival literature. He has authored The Prose Sermons of Jeremiah (1986), Order Amid Chaos (1998), Jeremiah AOTC (2005), "The Book of Jeremiah" in the New Oxford Annotated Bible, 5th Edition (2018), co-authored You Are My People: An Introduction to Prophetic Literature (2010), and co-edited Troubling Jeremiah (1999), Inspired Speech: Prophecy in the Ancient Near East Essays in Honour of Herbert B. Huffman (2004) and Jeremiah (Dis)Placed: New Directions in Writing/Reading Jeremiah (2011). He is the founding co-chair of the SBL Book of Jeremiah Group.

Edward Silver's research focuses on ancient Near Eastern prophecy as political speech. He has worked on the textual development of the Book of Jeremiah and on classical Hebrew rhetoric. His study of multiple rhetorical questions in the Book of Jeremiah is forthcoming from Eisenbrauns/Penn State University Press, and he is currently working on a study of the legends of the Book of Judges as subaltern political discourse. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2009 and currently teaches in the Jewish Studies program at CUNY, Hunter College.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Historical and Cultural Contexts of Origin
1. The Historical Contexts of the Books of Jeremiah -- C. L. Crouch
2. Jeremiah: Diaspora in Service to Exile -- Jill Middlemas
3. The Representation of Egypt in the Book of Jeremiah -- Safwat Marzouk
4. The Historical Jeremiah -- Mark Leuchter

Part 2 Textual History and Structure
5. Two Ancient Editions of the Book of Jeremiah -- Hermann-Josef Stipp
6. The Double Text of Jeremiah Revisited -- Alexander Rof?
7. The Last Stage of the Literary History of the Book of Jeremiah -- Emanuel Tov
8. Textualization and the Book of Jeremiah -- Joachim Schaper
9. The Prophet Jeremiah: Legends, Traditions and their Evolution -- Ronnie Goldstein
10. The Development of Hebrew and the Book of Jeremiah -- Aaron D. Hornkohl
11. On Poetry and Prophecy in Jeremiah -- Job Y. Jindo
12. Language Variation in the Book of Jeremiah and its Cultural and Social Background -- Frank H. Polak

Part 3 Critical Questions of Interpretation
13. Jeremiah: Content and Structure -- Mark E. Biddle
14. Theories of Prophecy in Jeremiah -- Nathan Mastnjak
15. Jeremiah and Prophetic Authority -- Matthijs J. de Jong
16. Jeremiah and Inner Biblical Exegesis -- Dalit Rom-Shiloni

Part 4 Major Internal Themes
17. Contested Theologies in the Book of Jeremiah -- George Fischer
18. Poetic Violence in the Book of Jeremiah -- Amy Kalmanofsky
19. Portraits of the Prophet in the Book of Jeremiah -- Else K. Holt
20. Jeremiah: The Traumatized Prophet -- L. Juliana Claassens
21. Imprisoned in Prose: Narrating Jeremiah's Confinement and the Babylonian Assault of Jerusalem -- Keith Bodner
22. The Jeremian Oracles Against the Nations -- Rhiannon Graybill
23. Jeremiah's Deathscapes -- Mary Mills
24. Hope and Resilience in the Books of Jeremiah -- Marvin A. Sweeney
25. The Ultimate Commitment: A Covenant Written on (the Tablet of) the Heart and Its Ancient Near Eastern Background -- Herbert B. Huffmon
26. Written on the Heart, Erased from the Mind: Rewriting Moral Agency in Jeremiah -- Samuel E. Balentine
27. Jeremiah's Non-Burial Refrain -- Sarah C. Jobe

Part 5 Reception Engagements
28. Jeremiah in Lamentations -- Elizabeth Boase
29. Jeremiah at Qumran -- Devorah Dimant
30. Jeremiah and His Prophecies in the New Testament -- Catrin H. Williams
31. The Prophet Jeremiah in Islamic Thought -- Roberto Tottoli
32. The Figure of Jeremiah in the Work of Stefan Zweig and Rainer Maria Rilke -- R?diger G?rner
33. Jeremiah Interpretation in Subaltern Context -- Katho Robert Bungishabaku
34. Jeremiah in Art -- Mary Chilton Callaway
35. Jeremiah and Homiletics -- Carolyn J. Sharp

Part 6 Significance of the Book of Jeremiah for Key Contemporary Political Issues
36. Ecological Hermeneutics and Jeremiah -- Kristel Clayville
37. Playing with Death: Violent Exceptions and Exceptional Violence in the Book of Jeremiah -- Steed Vernyl Davidson
38. Jeremiah and Gender -- Christl M. Maier