Jeremiah through the centuries. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mary Chilton Callaway.
• Authors: Callaway, Mary
• Contents: List of Illustrations xiii Series Editors’ Preface xix Acknowledgments xxi Testimonia xxv Jeremiah the Man xxv The Book xxvii Actualizations xxix Introduction 1 Theory and Practice of Reception History 3 Jeremiah in Three Guises 4 Jeremiah in Antiquity 5 Medieval Jeremiahs 17 Early Modernity 24 Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 47 Practical Notes for Using the Commentary 64 Jeremiah 1 67 Word of the Lord or Words of Jeremiah? (Jer 1:1) 67 Jeremiah Before Birth (1:4–5) 69 A Prophet to the Nations (1:5) 77 Resisting God (1:6) 77 Filling Jeremiah’s Mouth 81 The Job Description (1:10) 82 God’s Pun (1:11–12) 84 What’s Cooking? (1:13–16) 88 Jeremiah 2 93 God’s Lawsuit (2:1–13) 94 Leaky Cisterns or Living Water? (2:12–13) 95 A Puzzling Verb Becomes a Word of Salvation (2:20) 98 Prophetic Pornography (2:20–25) 99 Jeremiah in the Synagogue (2:4–28) 101 Jeremiah 3 103 A Rare Allusion to God the Father (3:4, 19) 103 Holy Forgetting (3:15–18) 105 3:24–25 106 Jeremiah 4 107 A Subversive Translation (4:1–2) 107 The Circumcised Heart (4:4) 108 Reading Metaphor (4:7) 109 Does God Deceive? (4:9–10) 110 Body and Soul (4:19–22) 110 Apocalypse Now (4:23–28) 112 Contradiction as Problem and Opportunity (4:27) 113 Dressing Down a Gussied‐Up Female (4:29–31) 113 Jeremiah 5 115 Nothing Bad Will Happen to Us (5:12) 115 Divine Fire Consuming Human Wood (5:14) 116 An Appalling and Horrible Thing (5:30–31) 118 Contents ix Jeremiah 6 119 Two Roads Diverged (6:16) 119 Buying Salvation (6:20) 120 Jeremiah as Fortress and/or Refiner (6:27) 120 Jeremiah 7 123 A Den of Thieves (7:1–15) 123 A Troubling Contradiction (7:21–24) 124 Jeremiah 8 127 Reading Jeremiah as Science (8:7) 127 The Balm of Gilead (8:22) 130 Jeremiah 9 135 A Fountain of Tears (9, 1, 18) 135 Internalizing the Prophet’s Cry (9:2) 140 Death Climbs in the Windows (9:21) 141 Jeremiah 10 145 Superstition and Science (10:2–5) 145 Who Will Not Fear You? (10:7) 147 Wise Fools (10:12–16) 147 Humans Are Not Masters of Themselves (10:23–24) 149 Correct Me, O Lord (10:24) 151 Pour Out Thy Wrath (10:25) 151 Jeremiah 11 153 Let Us Put Wood in his Bread (11:19) 153 Jeremiah 12 157 A Lawsuit Against God (12:1–4) 157 Shameful Revenues (12:13) 160 Jeremiah 13 161 Jeremiah’s Loincloth (13:1–11) 161 Jeremiah’s Tears (13:17) 164 Unsettling Images (13: 22–27) 164 Jeremiah 14 167 The Inn and the Manger (14:7–9) 167 Jeremiah 15 169 Saints Alive (15:1) 169 Woe is Me, My Mother (15:10) 170 Changing Fashions in Prayer (15:15) 171 Is Jeremiah Blasphemous? (15:18) 172 A Divine Reprimand Reconsidered (15:19) 174 Jeremiah 16 177 Prophetic Celibacy (16:1–4) 177 Hunters and Fishers (16:16–18) 179 Jeremiah 17 181 Misplaced Trust (17:5) 181 Is the Human Heart Deep, or Depraved? (17:9–10) 182 The Partridge (17:11) 185 Jeremiah 18 187 The Surprise of Divine Freedom (18:1–12) 187 Jeremiah 19 193 Jeremiah Smashes a Jug 193 Jeremiah 20–21 197 Jeremiah in the Stocks (20:1–6) 197 Divine Deception (20:7) 199 Whose Violence and Destruction? (20:8) 207 A Reproach and a Derision (20:8) 207 A Burning Fire (20:9) 208 Do Saints Curse? (20:13–18) 212 Jeremiah 22 219 The Burial of an Ass (22:18–19) 219 Jeremiah and the Lost Ark (22:29) 220 Jeremiah 23 223 The Righteous Branch (23:5–6) 223 False Prophets (23:9–40) 226 Jeremiah 24 229 Two Baskets of Figs (24:1–10) 229 Jeremiah 25 231 The Cup of the Wine of Wrath (25:15–31) 232 Jeremiah 26–28 235 Jeremiah’s Yoke (Jer 27:2; 28:1–17) 235 False Prophets 237 Jeremiah 29 239 Build and Plant (29:1–6) 240 Praying for the Enemy (29:7) 240 Seventy Years (29:10) 242 God’s Inscrutable Plans (29:11) 244 Jeremiah as Contemporary Prophet (Jer 29:19) 245 Jeremiah 30–31 247 Hope in the Midst of Trauma (30:1–3) 247 Rachel Weeps in Every Century (31:15–17) 248 Gender‐Bending (31:22) 250 The New Covenant (31:31–34) 252 Jeremiah 32–33 257 A Strange Real Estate Deal 257 Jeremiah 34 259 Taking Back the Gift of Freedom (34:8–22) 259 Jeremiah 35 261 Jeremiah 36 267 Free Will and Divine Omniscience (36:3, 7) 268 Word, Scroll, Book (36:2, 5, 18) 268 Jehoiakim as Perennial Tyrant (36:20–26) 269 Words and the Word (36:27) 272 Jeremiah 37–38 277 Dungeon and Cistern 277 Ancient Allegories (38:1–13) 278 A Model for Political Resistance (38:1–16) 280 The Cistern as Spiritual Prison (38:1–6). 285 Ebed‐Melek Rescues Jeremiah (38:7–13) 287 Jeremiah’s Lie (38:24–27) 295 Jeremiah 39 299 Zedekiah Captured (39:4–7) 299 Ebed‐Melech Becomes Abimelech (39:15–18) 301 Jeremiah 40–43 303 How Did the Prophet Escape the Burning City? (40:1–6) 304 The Murder of Gedaliah (40:7– 41:17) 305 How Long, O Lord? (42:7) 305 The Stones of Tahpanhes (43:8–13) 306 Jeremiah 44 309 Uppity Women (44:15–19) 310 Martyrdom of Jeremiah 312 Jeremiah 45 319 Jeremiah 46–51 323 Babylon, the Golden Cup in God’s Hand (51:7) 325 Jeremiah Speaks to a War‐Torn Twentieth Century (51:11) 326 Thus Far the Words of Jeremiah (51:59–64) 328 Glossary 329 Brief Biography 333 Bibliography 341 Index 357
• Publisher Details: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 224/.207; Electronic books; Commentaries
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1118780736; 9781118780756; 1118780752; 9781118780190; 1118780191; 9781118780732
• Related ISBNs: 9780631231516
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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