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The Oxford Handbook of Jeremiah offers compelling new readings of the text by some of the most influential contemporary biblical interpreters today. The book examines the fascinating literary tradition of the Book of Jeremiah through discussions of its historical and cultural contexts of origins, textual and literary history, major internal themes, reception history, and significance for a number of key political issues. The result is a synthetic anthology that offers a significant contribution to the field as well as an indispensable resource for scholars and non-specialists alike.
List of contents
- Part 1 Historical and Cultural Contexts of Origin
- 1. The Historical Contexts of the Books of Jeremiah -- C. L. Crouch
- 2. Jeremiah: Diaspora in Service to Exile -- Jill Middlemas
- 3. The Representation of Egypt in the Book of Jeremiah -- Safwat Marzouk
- 4. The Historical Jeremiah -- Mark Leuchter
- Part 2 Textual History and Structure
- 5. Two Ancient Editions of the Book of Jeremiah -- Hermann-Josef Stipp
- 6. The Double Text of Jeremiah Revisited -- Alexander Rofé
- 7. The Last Stage of the Literary History of the Book of Jeremiah -- Emanuel Tov
- 8. Textualization and the Book of Jeremiah -- Joachim Schaper
- 9. The Prophet Jeremiah: Legends, Traditions and their Evolution -- Ronnie Goldstein
- 10. The Development of Hebrew and the Book of Jeremiah -- Aaron D. Hornkohl
- 11. On Poetry and Prophecy in Jeremiah -- Job Y. Jindo
- 12. Language Variation in the Book of Jeremiah and its Cultural and Social Background -- Frank H. Polak
- Part 3 Critical Questions of Interpretation
- 13. Jeremiah: Content and Structure -- Mark E. Biddle
- 14. Theories of Prophecy in Jeremiah -- Nathan Mastnjak
- 15. Jeremiah and Prophetic Authority -- Matthijs J. de Jong
- 16. Jeremiah and Inner Biblical Exegesis -- Dalit Rom-Shiloni
- Part 4 Major Internal Themes
- 17. Contested Theologies in the Book of Jeremiah -- George Fischer
- 18. Poetic Violence in the Book of Jeremiah -- Amy Kalmanofsky
- 19. Portraits of the Prophet in the Book of Jeremiah -- Else K. Holt
- 20. Jeremiah: The Traumatized Prophet -- L. Juliana Claassens
- 21. Imprisoned in Prose: Narrating Jeremiah's Confinement and the Babylonian Assault of Jerusalem -- Keith Bodner
- 22. The Jeremian Oracles Against the Nations -- Rhiannon Graybill
- 23. Jeremiah's Deathscapes -- Mary Mills
- 24. Hope and Resilience in the Books of Jeremiah -- Marvin A. Sweeney
- 25. The Ultimate Commitment: A Covenant Written on (the Tablet of) the Heart and Its Ancient Near Eastern Background -- Herbert B. Huffmon
- 26. Written on the Heart, Erased from the Mind: Rewriting Moral Agency in Jeremiah -- Samuel E. Balentine
- 27. Jeremiah's Non-Burial Refrain -- Sarah C. Jobe
- Part 5 Reception Engagements
- 28. Jeremiah in Lamentations -- Elizabeth Boase
- 29. Jeremiah at Qumran -- Devorah Dimant
- 30. Jeremiah and His Prophecies in the New Testament -- Catrin H. Williams
- 31. The Prophet Jeremiah in Islamic Thought -- Roberto Tottoli
- 32. The Figure of Jeremiah in the Work of Stefan Zweig and Rainer Maria Rilke -- Rüdiger Görner
- 33. Jeremiah Interpretation in Subaltern Context -- Katho Robert Bungishabaku
- 34. Jeremiah in Art -- Mary Chilton Callaway
- 35. Jeremiah and Homiletics -- Carolyn J. Sharp
- Part 6 Significance of the Book of Jeremiah for Key Contemporary Political Issues
- 36. Ecological Hermeneutics and Jeremiah -- Kristel Clayville
- 37. Playing with Death: Violent Exceptions and Exceptional Violence in the Book of Jeremiah -- Steed Vernyl Davidson
- 38. Jeremiah and Gender -- Christl M. Maier
About the author
Louis Stulman is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy at the University of Findlay in Ohio. His teaching and research interests focus on the prophetic corpus in the Hebrew Bible as disaster and survival literature. He has authored The Prose Sermons of Jeremiah (1986), Order Amid Chaos (1998), Jeremiah AOTC (2005), "The Book of Jeremiah" in the New Oxford Annotated Bible, 5th Edition (2018), co-authored You Are My People: An Introduction to Prophetic Literature (2010), and co-edited Troubling Jeremiah (1999), Inspired Speech: Prophecy in the Ancient Near East Essays in Honour of Herbert B. Huffman (2004) and Jeremiah (Dis)Placed: New Directions in Writing/Reading Jeremiah (2011). He is the founding co-chair of the SBL Book of Jeremiah Group.
Edward Silver's research focuses on ancient Near Eastern prophecy as political speech. He has worked on the textual development of the Book of Jeremiah and on classical Hebrew rhetoric. His
study of multiple rhetorical questions in the Book of Jeremiah is forthcoming from Eisenbrauns/Penn State University Press, and he is currently working on a study of the legends of the Book of Judges as subaltern political discourse. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2009 and currently teaches in the Jewish Studies program at CUNY, Hunter College.
