My servants the prophets Prophecy and ideology in the Deutero-Jeremianic prose
This project is an attempt to navigate the area of intersection of two large complexes of interpretive problems: the composition of the book of Jeremiah, and specifically the provenance of and ideological role(s) played by the paraenetic prose in Jeremiah, on the one hand; and the redactional intere...
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| Summary: | This project is an attempt to navigate the area of intersection of two large complexes of interpretive problems: the composition of the book of Jeremiah, and specifically the provenance of and ideological role(s) played by the paraenetic prose in Jeremiah, on the one hand; and the redactional interests in prophecy evident in the Deuteronomistic History, on the other. The study employs traditio-historical, literary, and redaction-critical analysis of a motif that appears in both Jeremiah and Kings: the presentation of the LORDs servants the prophets as those who from ancient times have persistently warned the people to turn back from the worship of other gods. The main aims of the project are: first, to muster literary evidence that two distinct political groups can be seen vying for theological authority via their literary portrayals of traditions about Jeremiah and prophets generally in the Deutero-Jeremianic prose, namely, a group based in Babylon after the deportations of 597 B.C.E. that is attempting to claim political and cultic authority, and a group remaining behind in Judah after 597 that counters the political claims and related interpretive moves made by the Babylonian gola traditionists; second, to demonstrate that these two political groups wield in distinct ways the motif of the historical succession of the LORDs servants the prophets, the motif of Jeremiahs call as a prophet to the nations, and the motif of false perspectives; and third, to illustrate through analysis of prophetic roles in Jeremiah, Kings, and Deuteronomy 18 that there are substantial and fundamental discontinuities between the view of prophecy and the prophetic word presented in the Deuteronom(ist)ic corpus and the view presented in the Deutero-Jeremianic prose. The results of the present study finally render problematic the widely accepted scholarly thesis of monolithic redaction of the book of Jeremiah at the hands of the same Deuteronomists whose work is evident in the Deuteronomistic History |
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| Item Description: | Director: Robert R. Wilson Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-10, Section: A, page: 4041 |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9780599983809 |
| Access: | Access is restricted by licensing agreement |