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Prophecy and Ideology in Jeremiah: Struggles for Authority in Deutero-Jeremianic Prose is unavailable, but you can change that!

This project examines two areas where there are important interpretive problems: the composition of the book of Jeremiah and, specifically, the provenance of and ideological functions served by the text of Jeremiah on the one hand; and the redactional interests in prophecy evident in the Deuteronomistic History on the other. The book argues that two distinct political groups can be seen to vie...

INTRODUCTION Complexity of subject-matter tends to breed a reactionary oversimplification of the issues in even the keenest of minds. Oversimplification is a phenomenon perceptible to any teacher of an introductory Hebrew Bible course, by necessity in the teacher’s presentation of a vast amount of material within a limited timeframe, and in the beginning student’s grasp of same. It is perceptible also, if subtler and more veiled, in the guild of biblical scholarship. Students of the Hebrew Bible
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