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  3. The Theology of the Book of Jeremiah
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2006
Online ISBN:
9781139167260
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139167260
Subjects:
Biblical Studies - Old Testament, Hebrew Bible, Religion, Theology
Series:
Old Testament Theology
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Book description

The present study focuses on the theology of the Book of Jeremiah. That theology revolves around themes familiar from Israel's covenantal faith, especially the sovereignty of YHWH expressed in judgment and promise. The outcome of this theological nexus of context, person, and tradition is a book that moves into the abyss and out of the abyss in unexpected ways. It does so, in part, by asserting that God continues to be generatively and disturbingly operative in the affairs of the world, up to and including our contemporary abysses (such as 9/11). The God attested in the Book of Jeremiah invites its readers into and through any and all such dislocations to new futures that combine divine agency and human inventiveness rooted in faithfulness.

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'I know of no better introduction to the book of Jeremiah than this work of a master expositor. … Buy and read!'

Source: Theology Reviews

'… a gem and a must for anyone interested in Jeremian studies.'

Source: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

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Contents
References
Further Reading
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Commentaries on Jeremiah
Bracke, John M. Jeremiah 1–29. Westminster Bible Companion. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2000.
Jeremiah 30–52 and Lamentations. Westminster Bible Companion. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2000.
Brueggemann, Walter. A Commentary on Jeremiah: Exile and Homecoming. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998.
Carroll, Robert P.Jeremiah: A Commentary. Old Testament Library. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1986.
Clements, Ronald E.Jeremiah. Interpretation. Atlanta: John Knox, 1988.
Fretheim, Terence E.Jeremiah. Macon, GA: Smith and Helwys, 2002.
Holladay, William L. Jeremiah 1: A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapters 1–25. Hermeneia. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986.
Jeremiah 2: A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapters 26–52. Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1989.
Lundbom, Jack R.Jeremiah 1–20: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Anchor Bible 21A. New York: Doubleday, 1999.
Jeremiah 21–36: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Anchor Bible 21B. New York: Doubleday, 2004.
Jeremiah 37–52: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Anchor Bible 21C. New York: Doubleday, 2004.
McKane, William. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Jeremiah. 2 vols. International Critical Commentary. Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1986–1996.
Miller, Patrick D. “The Book of Jeremiah: Introduction, Commentary, and Reflections,” *in The New Interpreter's Bible. 12 vols. Ed. Leander Keck. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1994–. 6:553–926.
Stulman, Louis. Jeremiah. Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 2005.
Studies
Anderson, Bernard W. “‘The Lord Has Created Something New’: A Stylistic Study of Jer 31:15–22.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 40 (1978): 463–77.
Bauer, Angela. Gender in the Book of Jeremiah: A Feminist-Literary Reading. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.
Baumgartner, Walter. Jeremiah's Poems of Lament. Sheffield: Almond, 1988 (German orig., 1917).
Childs, Brevard S. “The Enemy from the North and Chaos Tradition.” Journal of Biblical Literature 78 (1959): 187–98.
Dearman, J. Andrew. “‘My Servants the Scribes’: Composition and Context in Jeremiah 36.” Journal of Biblical Literature 109 (1990): 403–21.
Habel, Norman. “The Form and Significance of the Call Narratives.” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 77 (1965): 297–323.
Kessler, Martin. “Jeremiah Chapters 26–45 Reconsidered.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 27 (1968): 81–88.
Perdue, Leo G.The Collapse of History: Reconstructing Old Testament Theology. Overtures to Biblical Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.
Perdue, Leo G. and Kovacs, Brian W., eds. A Prophet to the Nations: Essays in Jeremiah Studies. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1984.
Seitz, Christopher R. “The Prophet Moses and the Canonical Shape of Jeremiah.” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 101 (1989): 3–27.
Stulman, Louis. The Prose Sermons of the Book of Jeremiah: A Redescription of the Correspondences with the Deuteronomistic Literature in the Light of Recent Text-Critical Research. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 83. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986.
“Insiders and Outsiders in the Book of Jeremiah: Shifts in Symbolic Arrangement.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 66 (1995): 65–85.
Order Amid Chaos: Jeremiah as Symbolic Tapestry. The Biblical Seminar 57. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.
Theology
Carroll, Robert P.From Chaos to Covenant: Prophecy in the Book of Jeremiah. New York: Crossroad, 1981.
Diamond, A. R.The Confessions of Jeremiah in Context: Scenes of Prophetic Drama. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 47. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1987.
Diamond, A. R. Pete, O'Connor, Kathleen M., and Stulman, Louis, eds. Troubling Jeremiah. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 260. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.
Heschel, Abraham J.The Prophets. New York: Harper and Row, 1962.
Nicholson, Ernest W.Preaching to the Exiles: A Study of the Prose Tradition in the Book of Jeremiah. Oxford: Blackwell, 1970.
O'Connor, Kathleen M.The Confessions of Jeremiah: Their Interpretation and Their Role in Chapters 1–25. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 94. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1987.
Overholt, Thomas W.The Threat of Falsehood: A Study in the Theology of the Book of Jeremiah. Studies in Biblical Theology 16. London: SCM, 1970.
Smith, Mark S.The Laments of Jeremiah and Their Contexts: A Literary and Redactional Study of Jeremiah 11–20. Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series 42. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.

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