Between fear and freedom : : essays on the interpretation of Jeremiah 30-31 / / by Bob Becking.
Jeremiah's "Little Book of Consolation" is an intruiging text that provokes a series of interpretative difficulties. Is the text originally from Jeremiah? Can it be construed as a literary coherence or is a complex literary process of emergence to be accepted? What is meant by the ...
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Superior document: | Oudtestamentische studien = Old Testament studies, d. 51 |
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Year of Publication: | 2004 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Oudtestamentische studien ;
d. 51. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (350 p.) |
Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 A Dissonant Voice of Hope: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Jeremiah 30-31
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 The Art and the Act of Interpretation
- 1.3 The Book of Consolation
- 1.4 The Outline of this Book
- 2 Abbreviation, Expansion or Two Traditions: The Text of Jeremiah 30-31
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 A Textual Comparison
- 2.2.1 Zero Variants
- 2.2.2 Linguistic Exegesis
- 2.2.3 Instance where the MT Has a Corruption
- 2.2.4 Instances where the Old Greek Did Not Understand Its Vorlage
- 2.2.5 Secondary Additions in the LXX
- 2.2.6 Minor Content Variants
- 2.2.7 Content Variants
- 2.2.8 A Rearranged Unit
- 2.3 Conclusions
- 3 Cola, Canticles and Subcantos: The Macrostructure of Jeremiah 30-31
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Previous Proposals
- 3.3 Petuḥa and Setuma in Various Manuscripts
- 3.4 Macro Syntactical Indicators
- 3.5 Conclusions
- 3.6 The Composition of Jeremiah 30-31: A Proposal
- 3.7 Delimitation of Lines
- 3.8 Delimitation of Strophes
- 3.9 Delimitation of Canticles
- 3.10 Remarks on the Macro-Structure of Jeremiah 30-31
- 4 'I Will Break His Yoke From Off Your Neck': An Interpretation of Jeremiah 30:5-11
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Text and Translation
- 4.3 Composition
- 4.3.1 Awful Terror Jer. 30:5-7
- 4.3.2 Prophecy of Liberation Jeremiah 30:8-9
- 4.3.3 Oracle of Salvation Jeremiah 30:10-11
- 4.4 Literary and Conceptual Unity of Jeremiah 30:5-11
- 5 Divine Changeability: An Interpretation of Jeremiah 30:12-17
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Text and Translation
- 5.3 Literary Unity or Complex Composition?
- 5.3.1 Critical Positions: Duhm, Volz and Holladay
- 5.3.2 Arguing for Literary Unity
- 5.4 The Conceptual Coherence of Jer. 30:12-17
- 5.4.1 Motif and Model: Incurable Fracture and Divine Force Majeure.
- 5.4.2 The Linguistics of lākēn
- 5.4.3 Relations between the Actors
- 5.5 Divine Changeability and Shifts in Time
- 6 Between Anger and Harmony: An Interpretation of Jeremiah 31:15-22
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 A Voice Was Heard in Ramah
- 6.2.1 The Quotation in Matthew
- 6.2.2 The Literary Structure of Jeremiah 31:15-17
- 6.2.3 A Conceptual Comparison between Jer. 31:15-17 and Mt. 2:18
- 6.2.4 Conclusion
- 6.3 Human Repentance and Divine Compassion
- 6.3.1 Text and Translation of Jer. 31:18-20
- 6.3.2 Compositional and Stylistic Observations
- 6.3.3 YHWH Hears Ephraim's Complaint
- 6.3.4 Ephraim's Complaint and Change
- 6.3.5 YHWH's Compassionate Reaction
- 6.4 The Woman shall encompass the Man
- 6.4.1 Text and Translation
- 6.4.2 Imperatives to Return
- 6.4.3 Ketîb-Qerê and the Return of the Divine Glory
- 6.4.4 An Enigmatic Motivation
- 6.5 The Conceptual Coherence of Jeremiah 31:15-22
- 7 Sour Fruit and Blunt Teeth: The Metaphorical Meaning of the māšāl in Jeremiah 31:29
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Tragic Fatalism versus Personal Responsibility
- 7.3 The Context of the Saying
- 7.4 The Interpretation of the New Saying
- 8 Covenant and Creation: An Interpretation of Jeremiah 31:31-37
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 The Text of Jeremiah 31:31-34
- 8.2.1 Translation
- 8.2.2 Textual Remarks
- 8.2.3 Syntactical Analysis
- 8.2.4 Stylistic Remarks
- 8.2.5 Text-internal Chronology
- 8.2.6 On Dating Texts
- 8.2.7 The Text-external Chronology of Jer. 31:31-34
- 8.2.8 New Hope
- 8.3 The Reliability of Reality
- 8.3.1 Jeremiah 31:35-37: Translation and Textual Remarks
- 8.3.2 Conservatio Creationis
- 8.3.3 Time and Space: Divine Construction and Threatened Reality
- 8.3.4 Adynata
- 8.3.5 The Reliability of Reality
- 8.4 Covenant and Cosmos-Reliability and Relationship-The Conceptual Coherence of Jer. 31:31-37.
- 8.4.1 History as the Ground of Being
- 8.4.2 Creation as the Ground of Being
- 9 Is the Conceptual Coherence of Jeremiah 30-31 Based on an 'Exodus-Theology'?
- 9.1 The Conceptual Coherence of Jeremiah 30-31: A Few Remarks
- 9.1.1 Twofold Transformation
- 9.1.2 Sin and Sorrow: The First Transformation
- 9.1.3 Return and New Relationship
- 9.1.4 Divine Changeability
- 9.2 Exodus Theology?
- 9.2.1 Van der Wal's Thesis
- 9.2.2 Analysis of Van der Wal's Position
- 9.2.3 Conclusion
- 10 Overwhelming Wisdom, Divine Battle and New Life: The Symbol System of Jeremiah 30-31
- 10.1 Reading a Text Theologically
- 10.2 Overwhelming Wisdom
- 10.2.1 Cosmic Law
- 10.2.2 Law to Live With
- 10.3 Divine Battle
- 10.3.1 Cosmic Battle
- 10.3.2 God's Royal and Loyal Power
- 10.4 New Life
- 10.4.1 The Secret of Life
- 10.4.2 Daily Life
- 10.5 The Conceptual Coherence of Jeremiah 30-31
- 10.5.1 Restoration and Return
- 10.5.2 Relation between Theme and Tripartite Theology
- 10.5.3 Text in Context (Short)
- 10.5.4 The Distortion of the Economy of Guilt
- Bibliography
- Index
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