Jeremiah Invented: Constructions and Deconstructions of Jeremiah (The Library of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies)
Overview
In the first half of the 20th century there was immense scholarly interest in the biography of the prophet Jeremiah as the background for understanding the development of the book of Jeremiah. Around the turn of the century this interest disappeared, but it has now resurfaced in a transformed configuration as work seeking to analyze the creation of the literary persona, Jeremiah the prophet.
This volume examines the construction of Jeremiah in the prophetic book and its afterlife, presenting a wide range of scholarly approaches spanning the understanding of Jeremiah from Old Testament times via the Renaissance to the 20th century, and from theology to the history of literature.
- Examines the characterization of Jeremiah’s literary persona
- Invites readers of Jeremiah to account for their interpretations of the prophet in culturally honest, methodologically sophisticated ways
- Explores dimensions of historical, ideological, and artistic constructions of the prophet Jeremiah
- Introduction - Else K. Holt
- Duhm and Skinner’s Invention of Jeremiah - Joe Henderson
- Seduced by Method: History and Jeremiah 20 - Mary Chilton Callaway
- Sunk in the Mud: Literary Correlation and Collaboration between King and Prophet in the Book of Jeremiah - Barbara Green
- Bare Naked: A Gender Analysis of the Naked Body in Jeremiah 1 - Amy Kalmanofsky
- Figuration in Jeremiah’s Confessions: With Questions for Isaiah’s Servant - Kathleen M. O'Connor
- Deathscape and Lament in Jeremiah and Lamentations - Mary E.Mills
- First-Person Figurations of Servant and Suffering in Isaiah and Jeremiah: A Response to Mary Mills and Kathleen O'Connor - A. R. Pete Diamond and Louis Stulman
- Art and Atrocity, and the Book of Jeremiah - Louis Stulma
- Prophetic Sign Acts as Performances - Johanna Erzberger
- Jeremiah the Lamenter: A Synoptic Reading - Else K. Holt
This collection of essays on dream and vision reports is a welcome addition to the relatively scarce scholarship focusing on the topic ... I am confident that the reader will find his/her own favourites in this valuable volume
—Journal of Theological Studies
- Title: Jeremiah Invented: Constructions and Deconstructions of Jeremiah
- Editors: Else K. Holt, Carolyn J. Sharp
- Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies (LHBOTS)
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Publication Date: 2016
- Pages: 160
- Resource Type: Collected Essays
- Topic: Jeremiah
Else K. Holt is a Lecturer in the Department of Old Testament at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Carolyn J. Sharp is Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at Yale Divinity School, USA.