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.

Abbreviations

9

(4)

List of Contributors

13

(2)

Introduction

15

(19)

A.R. Pete Diamond

Part I Text-Centered Readings of Jeremiah

The Prose Sermons as Hermeneutical Guide to Jeremiah 1-25: The Deconstruction of Judah's Symbolic World

34

(30)

Louis Stulman

The Function of Chapters 25 and 50-51 in the Book of Jeremiah

64

(9)

Martin Kessler

Halfway through a Dark Wood: Reflections on Jeremiah 25

73

(14)

Robert P. Carroll

Exposing a Buried Subtext in Jeremiah and Lamentations: Going After Baal and ... Abel

87

(36)

Nancy C. Lee

Unfaithful Passions: Coding Women Coding Men in Jeremiah 2-3 (4.2)

123

(23)

A.R. Pete Diamond

Kathleen M. O'Connor

The Construction of Time in Jeremiah 25 (MT)

146

(15)

John Hill

The Potent Word of God: Remarks on the Composition of Jeremiah 37-44

161

(10)

Else K. Holt

Black Fire on White Fire: Historical Context and Literary Subtext in Jeremiah 37-38

171

(8)

Mary Chilton Callaway

Poetic Structure and Intertextual Logic in Jeremiah 50

179

(21)

Alice Ogden Bellis

Structure and Redaction in Jeremiah 2-6

200

(20)

Marvin A. Sweeney

Part II Reader-Centered Readings of Jeremiah

The Book of J: Intertextuality and Ideological Criticism

220

(24)

Robert P. Carroll

When Metaphor Becomes Myth: A Socio-linguistic Reading of Jeremiah

244

(19)

William R. Domeris

A Rolling Corpus and Oral Tradition: A Not-So-Literate Solution to a Highly Literate Problem

263

(9)

Raymond F. Person, Jr

The Amplification of the Expectations of the Exiles in the MT Revision of Jeremiah

272

(21)

Roy D. Wells, Jr

Dressed to be Killed: Jeremiah 4.29-31 as an Example for the Functions of Female Imagery in Jeremiah

293

(13)

Angela Bauer

Jeremiah in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

306

(14)

John Barton

Part III Theological Construction

The Book of Jeremiah in Old Testament Theology

320

(19)

Leo G. Perdue

The Book of Jeremiah and the Power of Historical Recitation

339

(11)

Lawrence Boadt

Between the Tower of Unity and the Babel of Pluralism: Biblical Theology and Leo Perdue's The Collapse of History

350

(9)

Dennis T. Olson

What Shall We Do about Pluralism? A Response to Leo Perdue's The Collapse of History

359

(8)

Thomas W. Overholt

The `Baruch Connection': Reflections on Jeremiah 43.1-7

367

(20)

Walter Brueggemann

The Tears of God and Divine Character in Jeremiah 2-9

387

(17)

Kathleen M. O'Connor

Part IV Response

Next Steps in Jeremiah Studies?

404

(19)

Walter Brueggemann

Something Rich and Strange: Imagining a Future for Jeremiah Studies

423

(21)

Robert P. Carroll

Index of References

444

(13)

Index of Authors

457

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