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Jeremiah Through the Centuries


Jeremiah Through the Centuries


Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries 1. Aufl.

von: Mary Chilton Callaway

91,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 04.06.2020
ISBN/EAN: 9781118780756
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 397

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<p><b>Explores the interpretive history of the Book of Jeremiah, and highlights the various ways it has influenced the cultures in which it was read</b> </p> <p><i>Jeremiah Through the Centuries</i> explores the reception history of the sixth century B.C.E. prophet, providing original commentary on the texts and traditions that continue to deeply impact readers by exemplifying the spiritual struggle of the faithful<i>. </i>Focusing on the Book of Jeremiah, the text presents an original theory about the effects of Jeremiah on the developing idea of the self in Western history and culture, particularly over the last 400 years, in a wide range of liturgical, political, artistic, literary, and cultural contexts.</p> <p>The book guides readers through various interpretations of Jeremiah’s poetry and prose, discussing the profound influence that Jeremiah and Western culturehave had on each other through the centuries. Significant texts from every chapter of Jeremiah are presented in a chronological narrative as both conversation and debate—enabling readers to encounter the prophet in the text of the Bible, in previous interpretations, and in the context of their own lives. Throughout the text, the receptions reflect historical contexts and highlight the ways they shaped specific receptions of Jeremiah<i>. </i>This book: </p> <ul> <li>Illustrates how the Book of Jeremiah was adapted by readers to face new challenges, both in the past and present</li> <li>Includes examples of Jeremiah in social satire, Islamic tradition, political debate, and religious controversy</li> <li>Provides a detailed introduction that traces Jeremiah’s influence on events and traditions</li> <li>Offers insights into both celebrated texts and lesser-known passages that are relevant to contemporary readers</li> <li>Features numerous, previously unpublished, illustrations, demonstrating the influence of Jeremiah on traditions in Western art</li> </ul> <p>Featuring engaging narrative and expert commentary, <i>Jeremiah Through the Centuries</i> is ideal for students, teachers, and general readers with interest in theology and biblical studies, Judaic studies, ancient literature, cultural criticism, reception history of the Bible, and the history of Western civilization.</p>
<p>List of Illustrations xiii</p> <p>Series Editors’ Preface xix</p> <p>Acknowledgments xxi</p> <p>Testimonia xxv</p> <p>Jeremiah the Man xxv</p> <p>The Book xxvii</p> <p>Actualizations xxix</p> <p><b>Introduction 1</b></p> <p>Theory and Practice of Reception History 3</p> <p>Jeremiah in Three Guises 4</p> <p>Jeremiah in Antiquity 5</p> <p>Medieval Jeremiahs 17</p> <p>Early Modernity 24</p> <p>Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 47</p> <p>Practical Notes for Using the Commentary 64</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 1 67</b></p> <p>Word of the Lord or Words of Jeremiah? (Jer 1:1) 67</p> <p>Jeremiah Before Birth (1:4–5) 69</p> <p>A Prophet to the Nations (1:5) 77</p> <p>Resisting God (1:6) 77</p> <p>Filling Jeremiah’s Mouth 81</p> <p>The Job Description (1:10) 82</p> <p>God’s Pun (1:11–12) 84</p> <p>What’s Cooking? (1:13–16) 88</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 2 93</b></p> <p>God’s Lawsuit (2:1–13) 94</p> <p>Leaky Cisterns or Living Water? (2:12–13) 95</p> <p>A Puzzling Verb Becomes a Word of Salvation (2:20) 98</p> <p>Prophetic Pornography (2:20–25) 99</p> <p>Jeremiah in the Synagogue (2:4–28) 101</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 3 103</b></p> <p>A Rare Allusion to God the Father (3:4,19) 103</p> <p>Holy Forgetting (3:15–18) 105</p> <p>3:24–25 106</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 4 107</b></p> <p>A Subversive Translation (4:1–2) 107</p> <p>The Circumcised Heart (4:4) 108</p> <p>Reading Metaphor (4:7) 109</p> <p>Does God Deceive? (4:9–10) 110</p> <p>Body and Soul (4:19–22) 110</p> <p>Apocalypse Now (4:23–28) 112</p> <p>Contradiction as Problem and Opportunity (4:27) 113</p> <p>Dressing Down a Gussied‐Up Female (4:29–31) 113</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 5 115</b></p> <p>Nothing Bad Will Happen to Us (5:12) 115</p> <p>Divine Fire Consuming Human Wood (5:14) 116</p> <p>An Appalling and Horrible Thing (5:30–31) 118</p> <p><i>Contents </i>ix</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 6 119</b></p> <p>Two Roads Diverged (6:16) 119</p> <p>Buying Salvation (6:20) 120</p> <p>Jeremiah as Fortress and/or Refiner (6:27) 120</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 7 123</b></p> <p>A Den of Thieves (7:1–15) 123</p> <p>A Troubling Contradiction (7:21–24) 124</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 8 127</b></p> <p>Reading Jeremiah as Science (8:7) 127</p> <p>The Balm of Gilead (8:22) 130</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 9 135</b></p> <p>A Fountain of Tears (9,1,18) 135</p> <p>Internalizing the Prophet’s Cry (9:2) 140</p> <p>Death Climbs in the Windows (9:21) 141</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 10 145</b></p> <p>Superstition and Science (10:2–5) 145</p> <p>Who Will Not Fear You? (10:7) 147</p> <p>Wise Fools (10:12–16) 147</p> <p>Humans Are Not Masters of Themselves (10:23–24) 149</p> <p>Correct Me, O Lord (10:24) 151</p> <p>Pour Out Thy Wrath (10:25) 151</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 11 153</b></p> <p>Let Us Put Wood in his Bread (11:19) 153</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 12 157</b></p> <p>A Lawsuit Against God (12:1–4) 157</p> <p>Shameful Revenues (12:13) 160</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 13 161</b></p> <p>Jeremiah’s Loincloth (13:1–11) 161</p> <p>Jeremiah’s Tears (13:17) 164</p> <p>Unsettling Images (13: 22–27) 164</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 14 167</b></p> <p>The Inn and the Manger (14:7–9) 167</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 15 169</b></p> <p>Saints Alive (15:1) 169</p> <p>Woe is Me, My Mother (15:10) 170</p> <p>Changing Fashions in Prayer (15:15) 171</p> <p>Is Jeremiah Blasphemous? (15:18) 172</p> <p>A Divine Reprimand Reconsidered (15:19) 174</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 16 177</b></p> <p>Prophetic Celibacy (16:1–4) 177</p> <p>Hunters and Fishers (16:16–18) 179</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 17 181</b></p> <p>Misplaced Trust (17:5) 181</p> <p>Is the Human Heart Deep, or Depraved? (17:9–10) 182</p> <p>The Partridge (17:11) 185</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 18 187</b></p> <p>The Surprise of Divine Freedom (18:1–12) 187</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 19 193</b></p> <p>Jeremiah Smashes a Jug 193</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 20–21 197</b></p> <p>Jeremiah in the Stocks (20:1–6) 197</p> <p>Divine Deception (20:7) 199</p> <p>Whose Violence and Destruction? (20:8) 207</p> <p>A Reproach and a Derision (20:8) 207</p> <p>A Burning Fire (20:9) 208</p> <p>Do Saints Curse? (20:13–18) 212</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 22 219</b></p> <p>The Burial of an Ass (22:18–19) 219</p> <p>Jeremiah and the Lost Ark (22:29) 220</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 23 223</b></p> <p>The Righteous Branch (23:5–6) 223</p> <p>False Prophets (23:9–40) 226</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 24 229</b></p> <p>Two Baskets of Figs (24:1–10) 229</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 25 231</b></p> <p>The Cup of the Wine of Wrath (25:15–31) 232</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 26–28 235</b></p> <p>Jeremiah’s Yoke (Jer 27:2; 28:1–17) 235</p> <p>False Prophets 237</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 29 239</b></p> <p>Build and Plant (29:1–6) 240</p> <p>Praying for the Enemy (29:7) 240</p> <p>Seventy Years (29:10) 242</p> <p>God’s Inscrutable Plans (29:11) 244</p> <p>Jeremiah as Contemporary Prophet (Jer 29:19) 245</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 30–31 247</b></p> <p>Hope in the Midst of Trauma (30:1–3) 247</p> <p>Rachel Weeps in Every Century (31:15–17) 248</p> <p>Gender‐Bending (31:22) 250</p> <p>The New Covenant (31:31–34) 252</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 32–33 257</b></p> <p>A Strange Real Estate Deal 257</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 34 259</b></p> <p>Taking Back the Gift of Freedom (34:8–22) 259</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 35 261</b></p> <p><b>Jeremiah 36 267</b></p> <p>Free Will and Divine Omniscience (36:3, 7) 268</p> <p>Word, Scroll, Book (36:2, 5, 18) 268</p> <p>Jehoiakim as Perennial Tyrant (36:20–26) 269</p> <p>Words and the Word (36:27) 272</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 37–38 277</b></p> <p>Dungeon and Cistern 277</p> <p>Ancient Allegories (38:1–13) 278</p> <p>A Model for Political Resistance (38:1–16) 280</p> <p>The Cistern as Spiritual Prison (38:1–6). 285</p> <p>Ebed‐Melek Rescues Jeremiah (38:7–13) 287</p> <p>Jeremiah’s Lie (38:24–27) 295</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 39 299</b></p> <p>Zedekiah Captured (39:4–7) 299</p> <p>Ebed‐Melech Becomes Abimelech (39:15–18) 301</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 40–43 303</b></p> <p>How Did the Prophet Escape the Burning City? (40:1–6) 304</p> <p>The Murder of Gedaliah (40:7– 41:17) 305</p> <p>How Long, O Lord? (42:7) 305</p> <p>The Stones of Tahpanhes (43:8–13) 306</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 44 309</b></p> <p>Uppity Women (44:15–19) 310</p> <p>Martyrdom of Jeremiah 312</p> <p><b>Jeremiah 45 319</b></p> <p><b>Jeremiah 46–51 323</b></p> <p>Babylon, the Golden Cup in God’s Hand (51:7) 325</p> <p>Jeremiah Speaks to a War‐Torn Twentieth Century (51:11) 326</p> <p>Thus Far the Words of Jeremiah (51:59–64) 328</p> <p>Glossary 329</p> <p>Brief Biography 333</p> <p>Bibliography 341</p> <p>Index 357</p>
<p><b>Mary Chilton Callaway</b> is Associate Professor and Department Chair in the Theology Department at Fordham University, New York. She is the author of several published essays on the reception of Jeremiah, particularly in relation to developing ideas of the self in early modern Europe.
<p><b>Explores the interpretive history of the Book of Jeremiah, and highlights its influence on various cultures through the centuries</b> <p><i>Jeremiah Through the Centuries</i> explores the reception history of this enigmatic prophet and his words. The book offers an introduction telling the story of the surprising ways in which both voice and persona of this elusive prophet were used in critical historical moments, as well as a complete chapter-by-chapter commentary that presents the significant historical effects of selected texts. The spiritual struggles of the faithful and critiques of philosophers and scientists are often presented in their own voices. The book offers original ideas about the effects of the "slipping figure of Jeremiah" on the developing idea of the self, shown in a wide range of liturgical, political, artistic, literary, and cultural contexts. <p>The book guides readers through various interpretations of Jeremiah's poetry and prose, discussing the profound influence that Jeremiah and Western culture<i></i> have had on each other through the centuries. Significant texts from every chapter of Jeremiah are presented in a chronological narrative as both conversation and debate – enabling readers to encounter the prophet in the text of the Bible and in previous exegeses. Throughout the text, the receptions reflect historical contexts and highlight the ways they shaped specific receptions of Jeremiah<i>.</i> This book: <ul> <li>Illustrates how the Book of Jeremiah was adapted by readers to face new challenges, both in the past and present</li> <li>Includes examples of Jeremiah in social satire, Islamic tradition, political debate, and religious controversy</li> <li>Provides a detailed introduction that traces Jeremiah's influence on events and traditions</li> <li>Offers insights into both celebrated texts and lesser-known passages that are relevant to contemporary readers</li> <li>Features numerous, previously unpublished illustrations demonstrating the influence of Jeremiah on traditions in Western art</li> </ul> <p>Featuring engaging narrative and expert commentary, <i>Jeremiah Through the Centuries</i> is ideal for students, teachers, and general readers with interest in theology and biblical studies, Judaic studies, ancient literature, cultural criticism, reception history of the Bible, and the history of Western civilization.

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