Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Citations
- Introduction
- 1 The Hermeneutics of Citation: Jeremiah 26
- 2 The Identification of Legitimate Israel: Jeremiah 27–32:15
- EXCURSUS 1 THE REDACTION OF JEREMIAH 1–25:13+OAN
- EXCURSUS 2 THE REENGAGEMENT OF THE ROYAL LINE IN JEREMIAH 33:14–26
- 3 The Standards of Faith and Intermediation: Jeremiah 34–36
- 4 The Fall of Judah, the Descent into Egypt, and Baruch ben Neriah: Jeremiah 37–45
- EXCURSUS 3 THE “WORDS OF JEREMIAH” AND SERAIAH'S COLOPHON IN THE MT AND LXX TRADITIONS
- 5 The Polemics of Exile
- 6 The Exilic Coalition between the Shaphanides and Levites
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Scriptural and Extra-Biblical Texts Index
- Subject Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Citations
- Introduction
- 1 The Hermeneutics of Citation: Jeremiah 26
- 2 The Identification of Legitimate Israel: Jeremiah 27–32:15
- EXCURSUS 1 THE REDACTION OF JEREMIAH 1–25:13+OAN
- EXCURSUS 2 THE REENGAGEMENT OF THE ROYAL LINE IN JEREMIAH 33:14–26
- 3 The Standards of Faith and Intermediation: Jeremiah 34–36
- 4 The Fall of Judah, the Descent into Egypt, and Baruch ben Neriah: Jeremiah 37–45
- EXCURSUS 3 THE “WORDS OF JEREMIAH” AND SERAIAH'S COLOPHON IN THE MT AND LXX TRADITIONS
- 5 The Polemics of Exile
- 6 The Exilic Coalition between the Shaphanides and Levites
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Scriptural and Extra-Biblical Texts Index
- Subject Index
Summary
scholarship concerning the formation of the book of jeremiah has, in recent years, undergone a type of renaissance. Whereas earlier approaches to the book and its formation were dominated by strict source-critical models, newer examinations have developed more intricate and advanced methods that in turn yield richer and more detailed results. Though the old source-critical paradigms are still useful in identifying literary genres within the book, they now seem rather limited in scope in terms of understanding the function of textual units, redactional growth, authorial intention, tradition history, and historical background to the Jeremianic tradition. While modern literary criticism has opened new avenues of analysis, interest in compositional and redactional analysis of the book of Jeremiah remains a staple of modern research. Most scholars have viewed the poetry in the book as largely original to the prophet, with the parenetic prose and narrative material constituting redactional additions to a once-independent collection of oracles. Little consensus, though, has arisen concerning the degree to which this redaction preserves the sentiments of the prophet himself. Still, there is general agreement that the book of Jeremiah has much in common with the Deuteronomistic tradition, especially when one considers the similarities in style and tone between Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History (DH) and the parenetic prose and prose narratives in the Jeremianic corpus.
Many have therefore postulated that the book of Jeremiah is the product of a Deuteronomistic redaction, a position most famously championed by W. Thiel.
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- The Polemics of Exile in Jeremiah 26-45 , pp. 1 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007