Jeremiah Invented: Constructions and Deconstructions of Jeremiah: 595 (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0567671801 ISBN 13: 9780567671806

Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Else K. Holt is Associate Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has published several articles on the theology of Jeremiah and its reception in both English and Danish. She is the co-editor with Paul Kim and Andrew Mein of the upcoming Concerning the Nations (November 2014).

Carolyn J. Sharp is Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at Yale Divinity School, USA. Among her books are Prophecy and Ideology in Jeremiah (2003) and Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible (2009). She is co-editor with Christl M. Maier of Prophecy and Power: Jeremiah in Feminist and Postcolonial Perspective (2013).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567671801
• ISBN 13: 9780567671806
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168
• Editor: Holt Else K.