Troubling Jeremiah (Jsot Supplement Series, Vol 260)

464 Pages·1999·22.013 MB·English

by  A. R. Pete Diamond, Kathleen M. O'Connor, Louis Stulman

JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
SUPPLEMENT SERIES
260
Editors
David J.A. Clines
Philip R. Davies
Executive Editor
John Jarick
Editorial Board
Robert P. Carroll, Richard J. Coggins, Alan Cooper, J. Cheryl Exum,
John Goldingay, Robert P. Gordon, Norman K. Gottwald,
Andrew D.H. Mayes, Carol Meyers, Patrick D. Miller
Sheffield Academic Press
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Troubling Jeremiah
edited by
A.R. Pete Diamond,
Kathleen M. O'Connor
and Louis Stulman
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
Supplement Series 260
Copyright © 1999 Sheffield Academic Press
Published by
Sheffield Academic Press Ltd
Mansion House
19 Kingfield Road
Sheffield S11 19AS
England
Typeset by Sheffield Academic Press
and
Printed on acid-free paper in Great Britain
by Biddies Ltd
Guildford, Surrey
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available
from the British Library
ISBN 1-85075-910-3
CONTENTS
Abbreviations 9
List of Contributors 13
A.R. PETE DIAMOND
Introduction 15
Part I
TEXT-CENTERED READINGS OF JEREMIAH
Louis STULMAN
The Prose Sermons as Hermeneutical Guide to Jeremiah 1-25:
The Deconstruction of Judah's Symbolic World 34
MARTIN KESSLER
The Function of Chapters 25 and 50-51 in the Book of Jeremiah 64
ROBERT P. CARROLL
Halfway through a Dark Wood: Reflections on Jeremiah 25 73
NANCY C. LEE
Exposing a Buried Subtext in Jeremiah and Lamentations:
Going After Baal and ... Abel 87
A.R. PETE DIAMOND AND KATHLEEN M. O'CONNOR
Unfaithful Passions: Coding Women Coding Men in
Jeremiah 2-3 (4.2) 123
JOHN HILL
The Construction of Time in Jeremiah 25 (MT) 146
6 Troubling Jeremiah
ELSE K. HOLT
The Potent Word of God: Remarks on the Composition
of Jeremiah 37-44 161
MARY CHILTON CALLAWAY
Black Fire on White Fire: Historical Context and Literary
Subtext in Jeremiah 37-38 171
ALICE OGDEN BELLIS
Poetic Structure and Intertextual Logic in Jeremiah 50 179
MARVIN A. SWEENEY
Structure and Redaction in Jeremiah 2-6 200
Part II
READER-CENTERED READINGS OF JEREMIAH
ROBERT P. CARROLL
The Book of J: Intertextuality and Ideological Criticism 220
WILLIAM R. DOMERIS
When Metaphor Becomes Myth: A Socio-linguistic Reading
of Jeremiah 244
RAYMOND F. PERSON, JR
A Rolling Corpus and Oral Tradition: A Not-So-Literate
Solution to a Highly Literate Problem 263
ROY D. WELLS, JR
The Amplification of the Expectations of the Exiles
in the MT Revision of Jeremiah 272
ANGELA BAUER
Dressed to Be Killed: Jeremiah 4.29-31 as an Example
for the Functions of Female Imagery in Jeremiah 293
JOHN BARTON
Jeremiah in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha 306
Contents 7
Part III
THEOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION
LEO G. PERDUE
The Book of Jeremiah in Old Testament Theology 320
LAWRENCE BOADT
The Book of Jeremiah and the Power of Historical Recitation 339
DENNIS T. OLSON
Between the Tower of Unity and the Babel of Pluralism:
Biblical Theology and Leo Perdue's The Collapse of History 350
THOMAS w. OVERHOLT
What Shall We Do about Pluralism? A Response
to Leo Perdue's The Collapse of History 359
WALTER BRUEGGEMANN
The 'Baruch Connection': Reflections on Jeremiah 43.1-7 367
KATHLEEN M. O'CONNOR
The Tears of God and Divine Character in Jeremiah 2-9 387
Part IV
RESPONSE
WALTER BRUEGGEMANN
Next Steps in Jeremiah Studies? 404
ROBERT P. CARROLL
Something Rich and Strange: Imagining a Future for Jeremiah
Studies 423
Index of References 444
Index of Authors 457
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ABBREVIATIONS
AB
Anchor Bible
ABD David Noel Freedman (ed.), The Anchor Bible Dictionary
(New York: Doubleday, 1992)
AnBib Analecta biblica
ANQ Andover Newton Quarterly
AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament
ASTI Annual of the Swedish Theological Institute
ATANT Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen
Testaments
BA Biblical Archaeologist
BBB Bonner biblische Beitrage
BDB Francis Brown, S.R. Driver and Charles A. Briggs,
A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1907)
BEATAJ Beitrage zur Erforschung des Alten Testaments und des
Antiken Judentums
BETL Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium
BHS Biblia hebraica stuttgartensia
BHT Beitrage zur historischen Theologie
Biblnt Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary
Approaches
BibOr Biblica et orientalia
BJS Brown Judaic Studies
BKAT Biblischer Kommentar: Altes Testament
BWANT Beitrage zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament
BWAT Beitrage zur Wissenschaft vom Alten Testament
BZ Biblische Zeitschrift
BZAW Beihefte zur ZAW
CBC Cambridge Biblical Commentary
CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly
CRBS Currents in Research: Biblical Studies
DID Discoveries in the Judaean Desert
EBib Etudes bibliques
EvT Evangelische Theologie
FAT Forschungen zum Alten Testament