Jeremiah Through the Centuries

Jeremiah Through the Centuries
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Explores the interpretive history of the Book of Jeremiah, and highlights the various ways it has influenced the cultures in which it was read   Jeremiah Through the Centuries 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 . 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. 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 . This book:  Illustrates how the Book of Jeremiah was adapted by readers to face new challenges, both in the past and present Includes examples of Jeremiah in social satire, Islamic tradition, political debate, and religious controversy Provides a detailed introduction that traces Jeremiah’s influence on events and traditions Offers insights into both celebrated texts and lesser-known passages that are relevant to contemporary readers Features numerous, previously unpublished, illustrations, demonstrating the influence of Jeremiah on traditions in Western art Featuring engaging narrative and expert commentary, Jeremiah Through the Centuries 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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Mary Chilton Callaway. Jeremiah Through the Centuries

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Guide

Pages

Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries

Forthcoming

Jeremiah Through the Centuries

List of Illustrations. Introduction

Commentary

Series Editors’ Preface

Acknowledgments

Testimonia

Introduction

Theory and Practice of Reception History

Jeremiah in Three Guises

Jeremiah in Antiquity

Early Judaism

The Developing Biblical Tradition

Early Christianity

The Liturgical Jeremiah

Rabbinic Judaism

Medieval Jeremiahs

Jeremiah in Medieval Christianity

The Glossa Ordinaria

Narrative Bibles

Picture Bibles

Medieval Jewish Sources

Jeremiah in Islamic Tradition

Early Modernity

The Reformers take on Jeremiah’s Persona

Jeremy Emboldens Faithful Outlaws in England

Jeremiah in Early Modern Europe

Jeremiah in the Counter‐Reformation

Jérémie in French Society

Jérémie as French Rebel

Jérémie Speaks Elegant French but Remains Stubbornly Hebrew

Holy Terror: Jérémie in Popular Culture

Jérémie Evokes Both Tears and Snickers in Eighteenth‐century France

Jeremy Weeps for England’s Pleasant Land

Jeremiah in Early Humanist Struggles with the Bible

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. The Paradox of Jeremiah in the Nineteenth Century

Jeremiah for Children

Jeremiah in War Time

The American Jeremiad

Jeremiah’s Voice in American Culture

Practical Notes for Using the Commentary

Jeremiah 1. Word of the Lord or Words of Jeremiah? (Jer 1:1)

Jeremiah Before Birth (1:4–5)

A Prophet to the Nations (1:5)

Resisting God (1:6)

Filling Jeremiah’s Mouth

The Job Description (1:10)

God’s Pun (1:11–12)

What’s Cooking? (1:13–16)

Jeremiah 2

God’s Lawsuit (2:1–13)

Leaky Cisterns or Living Water? (2:12–13)

A Puzzling Verb Becomes a Word of Salvation (2:20)

Prophetic Pornography (2:20–25)

Jeremiah in the Synagogue (2:4–28)

Jeremiah 3. A Rare Allusion to God the Father (3:4,19)

Holy Forgetting (3:15–18)

3:24–25

Jeremiah 4. A Subversive Translation (4:1–2)

The Circumcised Heart (4:4)

Reading Metaphor (4:7)

Does God Deceive? (4:9–10)

Body and Soul (4:19–22)

Apocalypse Now (4:23–28)

Word to Jeremiah

Contradiction as Problem and Opportunity (4:27)

Dressing Down a Gussied‐Up Female (4:29–31)

Jeremiah 5. Nothing Bad Will Happen to Us (5:12)

Divine Fire Consuming Human Wood (5:14)

An Appalling and Horrible Thing (5:30–31)

Jeremiah 6. Two Roads Diverged (6:16)

Buying Salvation (6:20)

Jeremiah as Fortress and/or Refiner (6:27)

Jeremiah 7. A Den of Thieves (7:1–15)

A Troubling Contradiction (7:21–24)

Jeremiah 8. Reading Jeremiah as Science (8:7)

The Balm of Gilead (8:22)

Jeremiah 9. A Fountain of Tears (9,1,18)

Internalizing the Prophet’s Cry (9:2)

Death Climbs in the Windows (9:21)

Jeremiah 10. Superstition and Science (10:2–5)

Who Will Not Fear You? (10:7)

Wise Fools (10:12–16)

Humans Are Not Masters of Themselves (10:23–24)

Correct Me, O Lord (10:24)

Pour Out Thy Wrath (10:25)

Jeremiah 11. Let Us Put Wood in his Bread (11:19)

Jeremiah 12. A Lawsuit Against God (12:1–4)

Shameful Revenues (12:13)

Jeremiah 13. Jeremiah’s Loincloth (13:1–11)

Jeremiah’s Tears (13:17)

Unsettling Images (13: 22–27)

Jeremiah 14. The Inn and the Manger (14:7–9)

Jeremiah 15. Saints Alive (15:1)

Woe is Me, My Mother (15:10)

Changing Fashions in Prayer (15:15)

Is Jeremiah Blasphemous? (15:18)

A Divine Reprimand Reconsidered (15:19)

Jeremiah 16. Prophetic Celibacy (16:1–4)

Hunters and Fishers (16:16–18)

Jeremiah 17. Misplaced Trust (17:5)

Is the Human Heart Deep, or Depraved? (17:9–10)

The Partridge (17:11)

Jeremiah 18. The Surprise of Divine Freedom (18:1–12)

Jeremiah 19. Jeremiah Smashes a Jug

Jeremiah 20–21. Jeremiah in the Stocks (20:1–6)

Divine Deception (20:7)

Whose Violence and Destruction? (20:8)

A Reproach and a Derision (20:8)

A Burning Fire (20:9)

Do Saints Curse? (20:13–18)

Jeremiah 22. The Burial of an Ass (22:18–19)

Jeremiah and the Lost Ark (22:29)

Jeremiah 23. The Righteous Branch (23:5–6)

False Prophets (23:9–40)

Jeremiah 24. Two Baskets of Figs (24:1–10)

Jeremiah 25

The Cup of the Wine of Wrath (25:15–31)

Jeremiah 26–28

Jeremiah’s Yoke (Jer 27:2; 28:1–17)

False Prophets

Jeremiah 29

Build and Plant (29:1–6)

Praying for the Enemy (29:7)

Seventy Years (29:10)

God’s Inscrutable Plans (29:11)

Jeremiah as Contemporary Prophet (Jer 29:19)

Jeremiah 30–31. Hope in the Midst of Trauma (30:1–3)

Rachel Weeps in Every Century (31:15–17)

Gender‐Bending (31:22)

The New Covenant (31:31–34)

Jeremiah 32–33. A Strange Real Estate Deal

Jeremiah 34. Taking Back the Gift of Freedom (34:8–22)

Jeremiah 35

Jeremiah 36

Free Will and Divine Omniscience (36:3, 7)

Word, Scroll, Book (36:2, 5, 18)

Jehoiakim as Perennial Tyrant (36:20–26)

Words and the Word (36:27)

Jeremiah 37–38. Dungeon and Cistern

Ancient Allegories (38:1–13)

A Model for Political Resistance (38:1–16)

The Cistern as Spiritual Prison (38:1–6)

Ebed‐Melek Rescues Jeremiah (38:7–13)

Jeremiah’s Lie (38:24–27)

Jeremiah 39. Zedekiah Captured (39:4–7)

Ebed‐Melech Becomes Abimelech (39:15–18)

Jeremiah 40–43

How Did the Prophet Escape the Burning City? (40:1–6)

The Murder of Gedaliah (40:7– 41:17)

How Long, O Lord? (42:7)

The Stones of Tahpanhes (43:8–13)

Jeremiah 44

Uppity Women (44:15–19)

Martyrdom of Jeremiah

Jeremiah 45

Jeremiah 46–51

Babylon, the Golden Cup in God’s Hand (51:7)

Jeremiah Speaks to a War‐Torn Twentieth Century (51:11)

Thus Far the Words of Jeremiah (51:59–64)

Glossary

Bibliography

Brief Biographies

Index

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Series Editors: John Sawyer, Christopher Rowland, Judith Kovacs, David M. Gunn Editorial Board: Ian Boxall, Andrew Mein, Lena‐Sofia Tiemeyer

Further information about this innovative reception history series is available at www.bbibcomm.info.

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“We may all very profitably read the Prophet Jeremy, who is full of incitation to repentance and new obedience.”

John Trapp, Commentary on Jeremiah, 1660

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