Figure 19 | Jer 1:1. Jeremiah as author of his book. © M. Moliero Editor (www.moliero.com), The Bible of St. Louis, vol. 2, f. 130r. |
Figure 20 | Jeremiah 1:1. Copper figure engraving by Cornelis Martinus Spanoghe, 1784, from his Very Correct Discourse of the History of the Old Testament. Private collection. |
Figure 21 | The birth of Jeremiah and its allegory © M. Moliero Editor. www.moliero.com. The Bible of St. Louis. vol. 2, f. 130r. |
Figure 22 | Jeremiæ the Prophet. Matthäus Merian, Iconum Biblicarum, 1630. Private collection. |
Figure 23 | Jer 1:5. A nineteenth‐century imagining of Jeremiah receiving God’s call. F.B. Meyer, Jeremiah: Priest and Prophet 1894. Private collection. |
Figure 24 | Jer 1:9. God places the word in a receptive Jeremiah’s mouth. British Library Royal MS 1 E IX (“The Bible of Richard II”) folio 193r. Bridgeman Images. |
Figure 25 | Jer. 1:6‐9. Winchester Bible, f148. ©The Dean & Chapter of Winchester, 2019. Reproduced by kind permission of the Dean & Chapter of Winchester. |
Figure 26 | Contemporary reception of Jer 1:10. Visual Theology, by permission of The Rev. David Perry, England |
Figure 27 | Benjamin West, The Call of Jeremiah. Courtesy of Musée des Beaux‐Arts de Bordeaux. |
Figure 28 | Political cartoon from Flugblätter der Reformation und des Bauernkriges. Courtesy of Widener Library, Harvard University. |
Figure 29 | The boiling pot. Engraving by Matthias Scheits for Tableaux de vieux et nouveau testament. Amsterdam 1710. Private collection. |
Figure 30 | Jer 5:21. “Was Jeremiah speaking to you?” Advertisement from the Saturday Evening Post 1924. |
Figure 31 | Jer 8:7. Frank Beard, Picture Puzzles, or How to Read the Bible by Symbols. Private collection. |
Figure 32 | Jer 8:22. Election Day Sermon “The Balm of Gilead” preached in Cape Cod in 1670. Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society. |
Figure 33 | Jer 9:1. Saul Rabino. “Jeremiah.” 1935 lithograph. Private collection. |
Figure 34 | Jer 9:1. Title page of Fons Lachrymarum with illustration of King Charles. RareBook 147377, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. |
Figure 35 | Jer 9:21. Icones Mortis Sexaginta Imaginibus 1648. Bridwell Library Special Collections, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. |
Figure 36 | Jer 10:14. Caricature of Erasmus as Jeremiah. Hans Holbein 1509. Print Collection, The New York Public Library. |
Figure 37 | Jer 13:17. Jeremiah weeps in the English Civil War. Harley MS 5987 61 (engraving) / British Library © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images. |
Figure 38 | Jer 18. Jeremiah’s potter as an allegory for the conversion of Saul. © M. Moleiro Editor (www.moleiro.com), The Bible of St. Louis, vol.2, f.130r. |
Figure 39 | Jer 19. Jeremiah smashes the jug. Brown’s Self‐Interpreting Family Bible. Private Collection. |
Figure 40 | Jer 20:2. “Le Grande‐Prêtre Frappe Jérémie.” M. Desmarais 1771, Paris. Private Collection. |
Figure 41 | Jer 20:2. The Children of the Bible: As Examples and Warnings. Frances M. Caulkins. 1850. Private collection. |
Figure 42 | Sculpture by Andrew Mabanji. Courtesy of Saint John’s Abbey, Collegeville, MN. |
Figure 43 | Jer 20:14–15. Figure 34. Jeremiah’s curse as medieval allegory condemning contemporary bishops. © M. Moliero Editor (www.moliero.com), The Bible of St. Louis, vol. 2, f. 141r. |
Figure 44 | Jer 27:2; 28:10. Theatrum Biblicum. 1674. Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. |
Figure 45 | Jer 29:19. A contemporary Jeremiah warns inhabitants of New York City. Private collection. |
Figure 46 | Jer 31:22. © M. Moliero Editor, www.moliero.com), The Bible of St. Louis, vol. 2, f. 148r. |
Figure 47 | Jer 36:23. © M. Moliero Editor (www.moliero.com), The Bible of St. Louis, vol. 2, f. 150r. |
Figure 48 | Jer 36:23. Jehoiakim watches the scroll burn. Jehoiakim burns Jeremiah's words. Johann Dietenberger, Biblia. 1534. Courtesy of the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection, Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology, Emory University. |
Figure 49 | Jer 36:23. Jehoiakim burns Jeremiah’s scroll. Jan Luykens in Christoph Weigel’s Historiae celebriores Veteris Testamenti Iconibus representatae (1712). Private collection. |
Figure 50 | Jer 36:23. Jehoiakim burns the scroll. Christoph Weigel. Biblia ectypa. 1695. Courtesy of the Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology, Emory University. |
Figure 51 | Jer 38:6. Matthäus Merian. Jeremiah dropped into the cistern, engraved by F.H. van Hove. Private collection. |
Figure 52 | M. Demaris, Jérémie, Poëme en quatre Chants. 1771, page 56. Private collection. |
Figure 53 | Jer 38:6. From an eighteenth‐century family bible published in Leeds, England. Private collection. |
Figure 54 | Jer 38:6. Jeremiah lowered into the cistern. From an English family Bible, 1834. Private collection. |
Figure 55 | Jer 38:6. Jeremiah in the cistern as trope of personal trouble for contemporary Christians. Courtesy of Pastor Jeff Warren, Park Cities Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas. 2014 |
Figure 56 | Jer 38:12–13. Ebed Melek directs Jeremiah’s rescue. Jan van Luyken, 1712. Private collection. |
Figure 57 | Jer 38:12–13. Ebed Melek directs Jeremiah’s rescue. Bernard Picart. Courtesy of the Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology. |
Figure 58 | Jer 38:12–13. Ebed Melek drawn by William Gunning King for Bibby’s Annual 1914. Private collection. |
Figure 59 | Jer 38:13. An American Ebed Melek for children. Herbert Rudeen 1959. Private collection. |
Figure 60 | Abimelech asleep with his figs. Early fifteenth‐century French Bible. Pierpont Morgan Library. Ms M. 395, fol.99r. |
Figure 61 | Jer 43:9. Illustration in a nineteenth‐century family Bible. Private collection. |
Figure 62 | Jer 44. Jeremiah preaches in Egypt. From a sixteenth‐century German Bible. Private collection. |
Figure 63 | Martyrdom of Jeremiah in the twelfth‐century Edili Bible. The Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, ms. Edili 125, f.121r. Reproduced with permission of MiBACT. Further reproduction by any means is prohibited. |
Figure 64 | Martyrdom of Jeremiah in fourteenth‐century Latin Bible. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Latin 17198, fol. 264v. |
Figure 65 | Martyrdom of Jeremiah in Bible historiale. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Latin 4915. |
Figure 66 | Jeremiah holding the Ark, with the martyrdom in background. Engraving by Johann Friedrich Fleischberger, seventeenth century. Private collection. |
Figure 67 | Martyrdom of Jérémie in M. Demarais, Jérémie, Poëme en Quatre Chants, Paris 1771. Private collection. |
Figure 68 | Jer 51:7. Lucas Cranach, The Whore of Babylon, 1522. |