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JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT SUPPLEMENT SERIES 260 Editors David J.A. Clines Philip R. Davies Executive Editor John Jarick Editorial Board Robert P. Carroll, Richard J. Coggins, Alan Cooper, J. Cheryl Exum, John Goldingay, Robert P. Gordon, Norman K. Gottwald, Andrew D.H. Mayes, Carol Meyers, Patrick D. Miller Sheffield Academic Press This page intentionally left blank Troubling Jeremiah edited by A.R. Pete Diamond, Kathleen M. O'Connor and Louis Stulman Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 260 Copyright © 1999 Sheffield Academic Press Published by Sheffield Academic Press Ltd Mansion House 19 Kingfield Road Sheffield S11 19AS England Typeset by Sheffield Academic Press and Printed on acid-free paper in Great Britain by Biddies Ltd Guildford, Surrey British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 1-85075-910-3 CONTENTS Abbreviations 9 List of Contributors 13 A.R. PETE DIAMOND Introduction 15 Part I TEXT-CENTERED READINGS OF JEREMIAH Louis STULMAN The Prose Sermons as Hermeneutical Guide to Jeremiah 1-25: The Deconstruction of Judah's Symbolic World 34 MARTIN KESSLER The Function of Chapters 25 and 50-51 in the Book of Jeremiah 64 ROBERT P. CARROLL Halfway through a Dark Wood: Reflections on Jeremiah 25 73 NANCY C. LEE Exposing a Buried Subtext in Jeremiah and Lamentations: Going After Baal and ... Abel 87 A.R. PETE DIAMOND AND KATHLEEN M. O'CONNOR Unfaithful Passions: Coding Women Coding Men in Jeremiah 2-3 (4.2) 123 JOHN HILL The Construction of Time in Jeremiah 25 (MT) 146 6 Troubling Jeremiah ELSE K. HOLT The Potent Word of God: Remarks on the Composition of Jeremiah 37-44 161 MARY CHILTON CALLAWAY Black Fire on White Fire: Historical Context and Literary Subtext in Jeremiah 37-38 171 ALICE OGDEN BELLIS Poetic Structure and Intertextual Logic in Jeremiah 50 179 MARVIN A. SWEENEY Structure and Redaction in Jeremiah 2-6 200 Part II READER-CENTERED READINGS OF JEREMIAH ROBERT P. CARROLL The Book of J: Intertextuality and Ideological Criticism 220 WILLIAM R. DOMERIS When Metaphor Becomes Myth: A Socio-linguistic Reading of Jeremiah 244 RAYMOND F. PERSON, JR A Rolling Corpus and Oral Tradition: A Not-So-Literate Solution to a Highly Literate Problem 263 ROY D. WELLS, JR The Amplification of the Expectations of the Exiles in the MT Revision of Jeremiah 272 ANGELA BAUER Dressed to Be Killed: Jeremiah 4.29-31 as an Example for the Functions of Female Imagery in Jeremiah 293 JOHN BARTON Jeremiah in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha 306 Contents 7 Part III THEOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION LEO G. PERDUE The Book of Jeremiah in Old Testament Theology 320 LAWRENCE BOADT The Book of Jeremiah and the Power of Historical Recitation 339 DENNIS T. OLSON Between the Tower of Unity and the Babel of Pluralism: Biblical Theology and Leo Perdue's The Collapse of History 350 THOMAS w. OVERHOLT What Shall We Do about Pluralism? A Response to Leo Perdue's The Collapse of History 359 WALTER BRUEGGEMANN The 'Baruch Connection': Reflections on Jeremiah 43.1-7 367 KATHLEEN M. O'CONNOR The Tears of God and Divine Character in Jeremiah 2-9 387 Part IV RESPONSE WALTER BRUEGGEMANN Next Steps in Jeremiah Studies? 404 ROBERT P. CARROLL Something Rich and Strange: Imagining a Future for Jeremiah Studies 423 Index of References 444 Index of Authors 457 This page intentionally left blank ABBREVIATIONS AB Anchor Bible ABD David Noel Freedman (ed.), The Anchor Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1992) AnBib Analecta biblica ANQ Andover Newton Quarterly AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament ASTI Annual of the Swedish Theological Institute ATANT Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments BA Biblical Archaeologist BBB Bonner biblische Beitrage BDB Francis Brown, S.R. Driver and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907) BEATAJ Beitrage zur Erforschung des Alten Testaments und des Antiken Judentums BETL Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium BHS Biblia hebraica stuttgartensia BHT Beitrage zur historischen Theologie Biblnt Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches BibOr Biblica et orientalia BJS Brown Judaic Studies BKAT Biblischer Kommentar: Altes Testament BWANT Beitrage zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament BWAT Beitrage zur Wissenschaft vom Alten Testament BZ Biblische Zeitschrift BZAW Beihefte zur ZAW CBC Cambridge Biblical Commentary CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly CRBS Currents in Research: Biblical Studies DID Discoveries in the Judaean Desert EBib Etudes bibliques EvT Evangelische Theologie FAT Forschungen zum Alten Testament
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