Written by leading experts in the field, The Book of Jeremiah: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation offers a wide-ranging treatment of the main aspects of Jeremiah. Its twenty-four essays fall under four main sections. The first section contains studies of a more general nature, and helps situate Jeremiah in the scribal culture of the ancient world, as well as in relation to the Torah and the Hebrew Prophets. The second section contains commentary on and interpretation of specific passages (or sections) of Jeremiah, as well as essays on its genres and themes. The third section contains essays on the textual history and reception of Jeremiah in Judaism and Christianity. The final section explores various theological aspects of the book of Jeremiah.
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The Book of Jeremiah: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation, offers a wide-ranging view of critical study on Jeremiah, with up-to-date scholarship and fresh insights from leading scholars in the field.
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Preface Abbreviations List of Contributors Part 1: General Topics 1 The Pen of Scribes: Writing, Textuality, and the Book of Jeremiah  Mark Leuchter 2 Jeremiah Among the Prophets  Marvin A. Sweeney 3 Jeremiah – “The Prophet Like Moses”?  Georg Fischer Part 2: Issues in Interpretation 4 Jeremiah at Mizpah of Benjamin (Tell en-Naṣbeh): The Archaeological Setting  Jeffrey R. Zorn 5 Messianic Expectations in the Book of Jeremiah? The Productive Memory of David  Bob Becking 6 Sagacious Divine Judgment: Jeremiah’s Use of Proverbs to Construct an Ethos and Ethics of Divine Epistemology  Samuel E. Balentine 7 Structure in the Confessions of Jeremiah  Catherine Sze Wing So 8 Reconsidering the “New Covenant” in Jeremiah 31:31–34  Magnar Kartveit 9 Yet Another New Covenant: Jeremiah’s Use of Deuteronomy and שוב שבות/שבית in the Book of Consolation  Amanda R. Morrow and John F. Quant 10 The Rechabites in the Book of Jeremiah and Their Historical Roots in Israel  Herbert B. Huffmon 11 Language and Rhetoric in Jeremiah’s Foreign Nation Oracles  Jack R. Lundbom 12 What Is Israel’s God Up To among the Nations? Jeremiah 46, 48, and 49  Paul R. Raabe Part 3: Textual Transmission and Reception History 13 The Text of Jeremiah (MT and LXX)  Andrew G. Shead 14 Texts of Jeremiah in the Qumran Library  Armin Lange 15 Jeremiah in Jesus and the New Testament  Craig A. Evans 16 Jeremiah in Targum  Robert Hayward 17 Jeremiah in the Peshitta  Gillian Greenberg 18 Jeremiah in the Old Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha  Sean A. Adams 19 Jeremiah and His Book in Josephus’s Writings  Michael Avioz 20 Jeremiah in the Latin  David L. Everson 21 Medieval Christian Interpretation of the Book of Jeremiah  Joy A. Schroeder Part 4: Jeremiah and Theology 22 Jeremiah as Mediator of the Covenant  Jack R. Lundbom 23 Jeremiah’s God Has a Past, a Present, and a Future  Terence E. Fretheim 24 God and Place in Jeremiah  David Reimer Indices Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Writings Index of Modern Authors
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9789004741539
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2025
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Brill; Brill
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949 gr
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235 mm
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155 mm
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33 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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Jack R. Lundbom. Ph.D. (1973), Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, is a Life Member at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He has published numerous scholarly articles and books, including the three-volume Jeremiah (1999; 2004).

ùCraig A. Evans, Ph.D. (1983), D.Habil. (2009), is the John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins at Houston Baptist University. He has published several books on archaeology, Jesus, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, including Jesus and His Contemporaries (1995) and Jesus and the Remains of His Day (2015).

Bradford A. Anderson, Ph.D. (2010), Durham University, is Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Dublin City University, Ireland. His research focuses on the Hebrew Bible and its reception, and publications include An Introduction to the Study of the Pentateuch (2017).