Overview

Jeremiah's Scriptures focuses on the composition of the biblical book of Jeremiah and its dynamic afterlife in ancient Jewish traditions. Jeremiah is an interpretive text that grew over centuries by means of extensive redactional activities on the part of its tradents. In addition to the books within the book of Jeremiah, other books associated with Jeremiah or Baruch were also generated. All the aforementioned texts constitute what we call Jeremiah's Scriptures. The papers and responses collected here approach Jeremiah's scriptures from a variety of perspectives in biblical and ancient Jewish sub-fields. One of the authors' goals is to challenge the current fragmentation of the fields of theology, biblical studies, ancient Judaism. This volume focuses on Jeremiah and his legacy.

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Author:   Hindy Najman ,  Konrad Schmid
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   173
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.143kg
ISBN:  

9789004320246

ISBN 10:   9004320245
Pages:   634
Publication Date:   15 November 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Contents Part 1: Hebrew Bible 1 Exegesis, Expansion, and Tradition-Making in the Book of Jeremiah Robert R. Wilson 2 A New Understanding of the Book of Jeremiah. A Response to Robert R. Wilson Georg Fischer 3 Ancient Editing and the Coherence of Traditions within the Book of Jeremiah and throughout the .× × × × × × A Response to Robert R. Wilson Florian Lippke 4 Prophets, Princes, and Kings: Prophecy and Prophetic Books according to Jeremiah 36 Friedhelm Hartenstein 5 King Jehoiakim's Attempt to Destroy the Written Word of God (Jeremiah 36). A Response to Friedhelm Hartenstein Lida Panov 6 Scribal Loyalty and the Burning of the Scroll in Jeremiah 36. A Response to Friedhelm Hartenstein Justin J. White 7 The Nature of Deutero-Jeremianic Texts Christl M. Maier 8 The Deuteronomistic Character of the Book of Jeremiah. A Response to Christl M. Maier Thomas Romer 9 A Gap between Style and Context? A Response to Christl M. Maier Laura Carlson 10 Deutero-Jeremianic Language in the Temple Sermon. A Response to Christl M. Maier William L. Kelly 11 Formulaic Language and the Formation of the Book of Jeremiah Hermann-Josef Stipp 12 Mysteries of the Book of Jeremiah: Its Text and Formulaic Language. A Response to Hermann-Josef Stipp Georg Fischer 13 What Does Deuteronomistic Designate? A Response to Hermann-Josef Stipp Elisa Uusimaki 14 Less than 300 Years. A Response to Hermann-Josef Stipp Fabian Kuhn 15 Why Jeremiah? The Invention of a Prophetic Figure Reinhard G. Kratz 16 Was Jeremiah Invented? The Relation of an Author to a Literary Tradition. A Response to Reinhard G. Kratz Bernard M. Levinson 17 The Question of Prophetic Authenticity. A Response to Reinhard G. Kratz Olivia Stewart 18 Jeremiah: The Prophet and the Concept. A Response to Reinhard G. Kratz Zafer Tayseer Mohammad Part 2: Ancient Jewish Literature 19 Confessing in Exile: The Reception and Composition of Jeremiah in (Daniel and) Baruch Judith H. Newman 20 Scribal Culture of the Hebrew Bible and the Burden of the Canon:Human Agency and Textual Production and Consumption in Ancient Judaism. A Response to Judith H. Newman Mladen Popovic 21 The Meanings of the Jerusalem Temple in Baruch. A Response to Judith H. Newman Zhenshuai Jiang 22 Text Reception and Conceptions of Authority in Second Temple Contexts. A Response to Judith H. Newman Phillip M. Lasater 23 The Use and Function of Jeremianic Tradition in 1 Enoch: The Epistle of Enoch in Focus Loren T. Stuckenbruck 24 Jeremiah, Deuteronomy and Enoch. A Response to Loren T. Stuckenbruck John J. Collins 25 Is Enoch also among the (Jeremianic) Prophets? A Response to Loren T. Stuckenbruck Ryan C. Stoner 26 Jeremiah's Scriptures in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Growth of a Tradition Eibert Tigchelaar 27 Modelling Jeremiah Traditions in the Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. A Response to Eibert Tigchelaar George J. Brooke 28 New Material or Traditions Expanded? A Response to Eibert Tigchelaar Anja Klein 29 Unities and Boundaries across the Jeremianic Dead Sea Scrolls. A Response to Eibert Tigchelaar James Nati 30 Jeremiah, Baruch, and Their Books: Three Phases in a Changing Relationship Matthias Henze and Liv Ingeborg Lied 31 The Reception of a Reception: The Influence of 1 Baruch on the Structure of 5 Ezra. A Response to Matthias Henze and Liv Ingeborg Lied Veronika Hirschberger 32 Textual and Material Contexts. A Response to Matthias Henze and Liv Ingeborg Lied Nathalie LaCoste 33 Retelling the Story of Exile: The Reception of the Jeremiah Tradition in 4 Baruch in the Perspective of the Jewish Diaspora Jens Herzer 34 The Eagle and the Basket of Figs in 4 Baruch. A Response to Jens Herzer Robin D. Young 35 The Development of the Jeremiah Figure in 2 Baruch and 4 Baruch. A Response to Jens Herzer Boyeon Briana Lee 36 Jeremiah as Mystagogue: Jeremiah in Philo of Alexandria Gregory E. Sterling 37 Philo and Jeremiah: A Mysterious Passage in De Cherubim. A Response to Gregory E. Sterling Rene Bloch 38 Jeremiah as Hierophant: Jeremiah in Philo of Alexandria. A Response to Gregory E. Sterling Franz Toth 39 I am the Man : The Afterlife of a Biblical Verse in Second Temple Times James Kugel Part 3: Early Christian and Rabbinic Literature 40 The Reception of Jeremiah and the Impact of Jeremianic Traditions in the New Testament: A Survey Jorg Frey 41 Jeremiah in the Book of Revelation. A Response to Jorg Frey Adela Yarbro Collins 42 The Jeremianic Covenant Theology and its Impact in the Gospel of Matthew. A Response to Jorg Frey Veronika Niederhofer 43 The Commissioning of Paul: Light from the Prophet Jeremiah on the Self-Understanding of the Apostle? Lutz Doering 44 The Apostle Paul in the Prophetic Matrix of Jeremiah. A Response to Lutz Doering Kipp Davis 45 Like a Priest Exposing His Own Wayward Mother: Jeremiah in Rabbinic Literature Ishay Rosen-Zvi 46 Jeremiah in Rabbinic Theology and Baruch in Rabbinic Historiography. A Response to Ishay Rosen-Zvi Shlomo Zuckier 47 Probing the Rabbis' Criticism and Silence with Regard to Jeremiah. A Response to Ishay Rosen-Zvi Jordash Kiffiak Author Index Ancient Sources Index Subject Index

Reviews

Some of the contributors raise fundamental, and for certain readers undoubtedly unsettling, issues about the historical figure of Jeremiah, the nature of the interpretational process from which it emerged and the continuation of this process beyond the canonical forms in which it has been preserved. The editors, for their part, are to be congratulated for their efforts towards bringing scholars into dialogue with one another. Finally, it should not go unnoticed that they invited both established and upcoming scholars to contribute to the volume, which allows for new perspectives on some well-known problems. H. Debel, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, 2018

Author Information

Hindy Najman, Ph.D. (1998), Harvard University, is the Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford. She has published monographs and numerous articles on biblical interpretation, history of scholarship and revelation, including Losing the Temple and Recovering the Future: An Analysis of 4Ezra (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Konrad Schmid, Ph.D. (1995), University of Zurich, is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism at that university. He has published Buchgestalten des Jeremiabuches (WMANT 72; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1996) and he is working on a commentary on the book of Jeremiah.

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