and the exilic periods. Still, interpreters to this day struggle with relating the prophetic, narrative, and sermonic elements of the book within a single frame of intentionality. John Bright once described Jeremiah as “a hopeless hodgepodge thrown together without any discernible principle of arrangement at all.”4 Therefore the canonical approach’s registered concern for an “intentionality” of some sort is not an intentionality that derives from a purely historical-descriptive or literary-genetic