Jeremiah (Dis)Placed New Directions in Writing/Reading Jeremiah [Hardcover]

Jeremiah (Dis)Placedcollects the best of the papers and responses presented to the 2007 and 2008 sessions of the Writing/Reading Jeremiah Group (SBL) offering an assessment of new interpretative directions in current Jeremiah Studies.

The Writing/Reading Jeremiah group was re-launched at the 2007 annual meeting of the SBL. Its purpose is to invite new readings and constructions of meaning with the book of Jeremiah this side of historicist paradigms and postmodernism. The group welcomes all strategies of reading Jeremiah that seek to reconfigure, redeploy, and move beyond conventional readings of Jeremiah. Their manifesto: not by compositional history alone, nor biographical portrayal alone, nor their accompanying theological superstructures; rather, we seek interpretation from new spaces opened for reading Jeremiah by the postmodern turn.

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List of Contributors

Part I: Critical Introduction

A. R. Pete Diamond and Louis Stulman, Analytical Introduction-Writing & Reading Jeremiah

Part II: Theorizing the Ancient and Modern Reader in/of the Scroll of Jeremiah

Carolyn J. Sharp, Jeremiah in the Land of Aporia: Reconfiguring Redaction Criticism as Witness to Foreignness

Yvonne Sherwood and Mark Brummitt, The Fear of Loss Inherent in Writing: Jeremiah 36 as the Story of a Self-Conscious Scroll

Kathleen M. O'Connor, Terror All Around: Confusion as Meaning-Making

Ehud Ben Zvi, Would Ancient Readers of the Books of Hosea or Micah be Competent to Read the Book of Jeremiah?

Respondent to preceding four--Louis Stulman, Here Comes the Reader

John Hill, The Dynamics of Written Discourse and Book of Jeremiah MT

Part III: Diaspora and Resistance in Jeremiah

Daniel Smith-Christopher, Jeremiah as Frantz Fanon
Else Holt, Narrative Normativity in Diasporic Jeremiah--and Today?

William Domeris, The Land Claim of Jeremiah: Was Max Weber Right?

Steed VernylS