Uprooting and Planting Essays on Jeremiah for Leslie Allen [Hardcover]

This Festschrift for Leslie C. Allen reflects the ferment in studies of Jeremiah. A group of international scholars examine the location of the prophecies in Jeremiah's life and consider the book's social, ethical, theological, political, and devotional implications.

Preface
Chapter 1: Leslie C. Allen--An Educated Evangelical
Chapter 2: Jeremiah 3:22b: An Intentionally Ambiguous, Multivalent Riddle Text
Chapter 3: Do Jeremiah and Ezekiel Share a Common View of the Exile?
Chapter 4: Prophecy Interpreted: Intertextuality and Prophecy
Chapter 5: Jeremiah and the Poor
Chapter 6: Jeremiah and the Superpower
Chapter 7: Yhwh, the God of Israel...and of Edom?
Chapter 8: Jeremiah 2-10 as a Unified Literary Composition
Chapter 9: The Book of Jeremiah (MT) and Its Early Second Temple Background
Chapter 10: Word of Jeremiah--Wod of God
Chapter 11: Prophet and Singer in the Fray
Chapter 12: The Mis-Pi Rituals and Incantations and Jeremiah 10:1-16
Chapter 13: The Laments in Jeremiah and 1QH
Chapter 14: Ebed-Melech as Exemplar
Chapter 15: Baruch Among the Sages
Chapter 16: Baruch as First Reader
Chapter 17: Jeremiah's Reflection on the Isaian Royal Promise
Chapter 18: Dislocations in Time and Ideology in the Reconception of Jeremiah's Words