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

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Sheffield S11 9AS

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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

List of Contributors

A.R. Pete Diamond

Introduction

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

Martin Kessler

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

Robert P. Carroll

Halfway through a Dark Wood: Reflections on Jeremiah 25

Nancy C. Lee

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

A.R. Pete Diamond and Kathleen M. O’Connor

Unfaithful Passions: Coding Women Coding Men in Jeremiah 2–3 (4:2)

John Hill

The Construction of Time in Jeremiah 25 (mt)

Else K. Holt

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

Mary Chilton Callaway

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

Alice Ogden Bellis

Poetic Structure and Intertextual Logic in Jeremiah 50

Marvin A. Sweeney

Structure and Redaction in Jeremiah 2–6

Part II

Reader-centered Readings of Jeremiah

Robert P. Carroll

The Book of J: Intertextuality and Ideological Criticism

William R. Domeris

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

Raymond F. Person, jr

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

Roy D. Wells, jr

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

Angela Bauer

Dressed to Be Killed: Jeremiah 4:29–31 as an Example for the Functions of Female Imagery in Jeremiah

John Barton

Jeremiah in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

Part III

Theological Construction

Leo G. Perdue

The Book of Jeremiah in Old Testament Theology

Lawrence Boadt

The Book of Jeremiah and the Power of Historical Recitation

Dennis T. Olson

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

Thomas W. Overholt

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

Walter Brueggemann

The ‘Baruch Connection’: Reflections on Jeremiah 43:1–7

Kathleen M. O’Connor

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

Part IV

Response

Walter Brueggemann

Next Steps in Jeremiah Studies?

Robert P. Carroll

Something Rich and Strange: Imagining a Future for Jeremiah Studies

Index of References

Index of Authors