Jeremiah Invented: Constructions and Deconstructions of Jeremiah

In the first half of the 20th century there was immense scholarly interest in the biography of the prophet Jeremiah as the background for understanding the development of the book of Jeremiah. Around the turn of the century this interest disappeared, but it has now resurfaced in a transformed configuration as work seeking to analyze the creation of the literary persona, Jeremiah the prophet.

This volume examines the construction of Jeremiah in the prophetic book and its afterlife, presenting a wide range of scholarly approaches spanning the understanding of Jeremiah from Old Testament times via the Renaissance to the 20th century, and from theology to the history of literature.

• Table Of Contents
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction - Else K. Holt, Aarhus University, Denmark and Carolyn J. Sharp, Yale Divinity School, USA
• 2. Duhm and Skinner's Invention of Jeremiah - Joe Henderson, Biola University, USA
• 3. Seduced by Method: History and Jeremiah 20 - Mary Chilton Callaway, Fordham University, USA
• 4. Sunk in the Mud: Literary Correlation and Collaboration between King and Prophet in the Book of Jeremiah - Barbara Green, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, USA
• 5. Bare Naked: A Gender Analysis of the Naked Body in Jeremiah 13 - Amy Kalmanofsky, The Jewish Theological Seminary New York, USA
• 6. Figuration in Jeremiah's Confessions: With Questions for Isaiah's Servant - Kathleen M. O'Connor, Columbia Theological Seminary, USA
• 7. Deathscape and Lament in Jeremiah and Lamentations - Mary E.Mills, Liverpool Hope University, USA
• 8. First-Person Figurations of Servant and Suffering in Isaiah and Jeremiah: A Response to Mary Mills and Kathleen O'Connor - A. R. Pete Diamond (1950–2011) and Louis Stulman, University of Findlay, USA
• 9. Art and Atrocity, and the Book of Jeremiah - Louis Stulman, University of Findlay, USA
• 10. Prophetic Sign Acts as Performances - Johanna Erzberger, Institut Catholique de Paris, France
• 11. Jeremiah the Lamenter: A Synoptic Reading - Else K. Holt, Aarhus University, Denmark
• 12. Indexes