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Jeremiah’s Scriptures focuses on the composition of the biblical book of Jeremiah and its dynamic afterlife in ancient Jewish traditions. Jeremiah is an interpretive text that grew over centuries by means of extensive redactional activities on the part of its tradents. In addition to the books within the book of Jeremiah, other books associated with Jeremiah or Baruch were also generated. All the aforementioned texts constitute what we call “Jeremiah's Scriptures.” The papers and responses collected here approach Jeremiah’s scriptures from a variety of perspectives in biblical and ancient Jewish sub-fields. One of the authors' goals is to challenge the current fragmentation of the fields of theology, biblical studies, ancient Judaism. This volume focuses on Jeremiah and his legacy.
Price: $276.00
Pages: 634
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism
Publication Date:
15 November 2016
ISBN: 9789004320246
Format: Other
"Some of the contributors raise fundamental, and for certain readers undoubtedly unsettling, issues about the historical figure of Jeremiah, the nature of the interpretational process from which it emerged and the continuation of this process beyond the canonical forms in which it has been preserved. The editors, for their part, are to be congratulated for their efforts towards bringing scholars into dialogue with one another. Finally, it should not go unnoticed that they invited both established and upcoming scholars to contribute to the volume, which allows for new perspectives on some well-known problems." - H. Debel, in: Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses (2018)
Hindy Najman, Ph.D. (1998), Harvard University, is the Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford. She has published monographs and numerous articles on biblical interpretation, history of scholarship and revelation, including Losing the Temple and Recovering the Future: An Analysis of 4Ezra (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Konrad Schmid, Ph.D. (1995), University of Zurich, is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism at that university. He has published Buchgestalten des Jeremiabuches (WMANT 72; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1996) and he is working on a commentary on the book of Jeremiah.
Konrad Schmid, Ph.D. (1995), University of Zurich, is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism at that university. He has published Buchgestalten des Jeremiabuches (WMANT 72; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1996) and he is working on a commentary on the book of Jeremiah.