List of Illustrations

Introduction

Figure 1 Rembrandt van Rijn, Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Figure 2 Jeremiah with scroll and Ark. Wall fresco in the synagogue at Dura Europos. Public domain. Figure 3 John of Damascus, Sacra Parallela. Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Grec 923, fol. 258v. Constantinople. Figure 4 Prophet Jeremiah, Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. De Agostini Picture Library/Bridgeman Images. Figure 5 The Prophet Armia, miniature from the "Jami' al-Tawarikh" of Rashid al-Din, Ms Or 20 f. 13v c. 1307. Edinburgh University Library/Bridgeman Images. Figure 6 Headpiece to Jeremiah in the Coverdale Bible 1535. Reproduced with permission of the syndics of the Cambridge University Library. Figure 7 The Prophet Jeremia. Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus. Icones Prophetarum Veteris Testamenti Antwerp 1613. Private collection. Figure 8 Jeremiah before Zedekiah. Claes Jansz. Visscher. Theatrum Biblicum, hoc est historiae sacrae Veteris et Novi Testamenti tabulis aeneis expressae. Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Figure 9 Title page of Michael Ghislerius, In Ieremiam prophetam commentarii 1623. Reproduced by permission of the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard. Figure 10 Frontispiece to Desmarais' Jérémie, Poëme en Quatre Chants. Paris 1771. Private collection. Figure 11 A children's Jeremiah. Charles Foster's Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us 1893. Private collection. Figure 12 Jeremiah resisting a repressive regime. D.C. Comics, Picture Stories from the Bible. M.C. Gaines 1943. Private collection. Figure 13 Jeremiah as twentieth-century boy contemplating his call. Arthur S. Maxwell, The Bible Story Vol 5, p. 179. 1955. Private collection. Figure 14 Jeremiah models resisting ridicule. My Book of Bible Stories. Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, 1978. Private collection. Figure 15 Jeremiah bullied. Children's story bible from the early twentieth century. Private collection. Figure 16 Charity medal by Louis Rosenthal, 1938. Private collection. Figure 17 Doug Johnson, "Lamentation for the Ages". Figure 18 Marc Chagall, "Solitude." Oil on canvas. Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Gift of the artist, 1953. Photo: Avraham Hai. © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.

Commentary

Figure 19 Jer 1:1. Jeremiah as author of his book. © M. Moliero Editor (www.moliero.com), The Bible of St. Louis, vol. 2, f. 130r. Figure 20 Jeremiah 1:1. Copper figure engraving by Cornelis Martinus Spanoghe, 1784, from his Very Correct Discourse of the History of the Old Testament. Private collection. Figure 21 The birth of Jeremiah and its allegory © M. Moliero Editor. www.moliero.com. The Bible of St. Louis. vol. 2, f. 130r. Figure 22 Jeremiæ the Prophet. Matthäus Merian, Iconum Biblicarum, 1630. Private collection. Figure 23 Jer 1:5. A nineteenth-century imagining of Jeremiah receiving God's call. F.B. Meyer, Jeremiah: Priest and Prophet 1894. Private collection. Figure 24 Jer 1:9. God places the word in a receptive Jeremiah's mouth. British Library Royal MS 1 E IX ("The Bible of Richard II") folio 193r. Bridgeman Images. Figure 25 Jer. 1:6-9. Winchester Bible, f148. ©The Dean & Chapter of Winchester, 2019. Reproduced by kind permission of the Dean & Chapter of Winchester. Figure 26 Contemporary reception of Jer 1:10. Visual Theology, by permission of The Rev. David Perry, England Figure 27 Benjamin West, The Call of Jeremiah. Courtesy of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux. Figure 28 Political cartoon from Flugblätter der Reformation und des Bauernkriges. Courtesy of Widener Library, Harvard University. Figure 29 The boiling pot. Engraving by Matthias Scheits for Tableaux de vieux et nouveau testament. Amsterdam 1710. Private collection. Figure 30 Jer 5:21. "Was Jeremiah speaking to you?" Advertisement from the Saturday Evening Post 1924. Figure 31 Jer 8:7. Frank Beard, Picture Puzzles, or How to Read the Bible by Symbols. Private collection. Figure 32 Jer 8:22. Election Day Sermon "The Balm of Gilead" preached in Cape Cod in 1670. Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Figure 33 Jer 9:1. Saul Rabino. "Jeremiah." 1935 lithograph. Private collection. Figure 34 Jer 9:1. Title page of Fons Lachrymarum with illustration of King Charles. RareBook 147377, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Figure 35 Jer 9:21. Icones Mortis Sexaginta Imaginibus 1648. Bridwell Library Special Collections, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. Figure 36 Jer 10:14. Caricature of Erasmus as Jeremiah. Hans Holbein 1509. Print Collection, The New York Public Library. Figure 37 Jer 13:17. Jeremiah weeps in the English Civil War. Harley MS 5987 61 (engraving) / British Library © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images. Figure 38 Jer 18. Jeremiah's potter as an allegory for the conversion of Saul. © M. Moleiro Editor (www.moleiro.com), The Bible of St. Louis, vol.2, f.130r. Figure 39 Jer 19. Jeremiah smashes the jug. Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible. Private Collection. Figure 40 Jer 20:2. "Le Grande-Prêtre Frappe Jérémie." M. Desmarais 1771, Paris. Private Collection. Figure 41 Jer 20:2. The Children of the Bible: As Examples and Warnings. Frances M. Caulkins. 1850. Private collection. Figure 42 Sculpture by Andrew Mabanji. Courtesy of Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville, MN. Figure 43 Jer 20:14-15. Figure 34. Jeremiah's curse as medieval allegory condemning contemporary bishops. © M. Moliero Editor (www.moliero.com), The Bible of St. Louis, vol. 2, f. 141r. Figure 44 Jer 27:2; 28:10. Theatrum Biblicum. 1674. Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Figure 45 Jer 29:19. A contemporary Jeremiah warns inhabitants of New York City. Private collection. Figure 46 Jer 31:22. © M. Moliero Editor, www.moliero.com), The Bible of St. Louis, vol. 2, f. 148r. Figure 47 Jer 36:23. © M. Moliero Editor (www.moliero.com), The Bible of St. Louis, vol. 2, f. 150r. Figure 48 Jer 36:23. Jehoiakim watches the scroll burn. Jehoiakim burns Jeremiah's words. Johann Dietenberger, Biblia. 1534. Courtesy of the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection, Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology, Emory University. Figure 49 Jer 36:23. Jehoiakim burns Jeremiah's scroll. Jan Luykens in Christoph Weigel's Historiae celebriores Veteris Testamenti Iconibus representatae (1712). Private collection. Figure 50 Jer 36:23. Jehoiakim burns the scroll. Christoph Weigel. Biblia ectypa. 1695. Courtesy of the Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology, Emory University. Figure 51 Jer 38:6. Matthäus...