
Jeremiah (Dis)Placed
New Directions in Writing/Reading Jeremiah
T.& T.Clark Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 21. April 2011
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-567-64122-9 (ISBN)
Description
Jeremiah (Dis)Placed collects 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.
Reviews / Votes
This book is well-edited and well-proofed. No doubt this collection will affect future research made on the book of Jeremiah in many ways. -- Review of Biblical Literature This would be an excellent textbook from which to set readings for students, for the essays are conducive both for generating discussion and, potentially, for widening the horizons of thought... This book is a valuable addition to the library shelves. -- Julie Woods * Reviews in Religion and Theology *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
2 illus
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
669 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-567-64122-9 (9780567641229)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Louis Stulman is Professor of Religious Studies, University of Findlay. His numerous publications on Jeremiah include the Abingdon Old Testament Commentary on Jeremiah (2005), Order Amid Chaos: Jeremiah as Symbolic Tapestry (Sheffield, 1998). A. R. Pete Diamond, Assistant Professor Santa Barbara City College, is the author of numerous contributions to the field including, "Interlocutions: The Poetics of Voice in the Figuration of YHWH and his Oracular Agent, Jeremiah," in Interpretation 62/1 (2008).
Content
Abbreviations; Dedications; List of Contributors; Part I: Critical Introduction; Part II: Theorizing the Ancient and Modern Reader in/of the Scroll of Jeremiah; Part IV: Hope, Utopia and the Fantasy of Violence in Jeremiah; Part V: Intertextuality, Reception & History of Interpretation.