Mary Chilton Callaway - Jeremiah Through the Centuries

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2 Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries Series Editors: John Sawyer, Christopher Rowland, Judith Kovacs, David M. Gunn Editorial Board: Ian Boxall, Andrew Mein, Lena‐Sofia Tiemeyer Further information about this innovative reception history series is available at www.bbibcomm.info . John Through the Centuries Mark Edwards Revelation Through the Centuries Judith Kovacs and Christopher Rowland Judges Through the Centuries David M. Gunn Exodus Through the Centuries Scott M. Langston Ecclesiastes Through the Centuries Eric S. Christianson Esther Through the Centuries Jo Carruthers Psalms Through the Centuries:Volume I Susan Gillingham Galatians Through the Centuries John Riches Pastoral Epistles Through the Centuries Jay Twomey 1 & 2 Thessalonians Through the Centuries Anthony C. Thiselton Six Minor Prophets Through the Centuries Richard J Coggins and Jin H. Han Lamentations Through the Centuries Paul M. Joyce and Diana Lipton James Through the Centuries David B. Gowler The Acts of the Apostles Through the Centuries Heidi J. Hornik and Mikeal C. Parsons Chronicles Through the Centuries Blaire A. French Isaiah Through the Centuries John F.A. Sawyer Psalms Through the Centuries: Volume II Susan Gillingham Matthew Through the Centuries Ian Boxall Jeremiah Through the Centuries Mary Chilton Callaway

3 List of Illustrations Introduction Commentary

4 Series Editors’ Preface

5 Acknowledgments

6 Testimonia

7 Introduction Theory and Practice of Reception History Jeremiah in Three Guises Jeremiah in Antiquity Medieval Jeremiahs Early Modernity Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Practical Notes for Using the Commentary

8 Jeremiah 1: Word of the Lord or Words of Jeremiah? (Jer 1:1) Jeremiah Before Birth (1:4–5) A Prophet to the Nations (1:5) Resisting God (1:6) Filling Jeremiah’s Mouth The Job Description (1:10) God’s Pun (1:11–12) What’s Cooking? (1:13–16)

9 Jeremiah 2: God’s Lawsuit (2:1–13) Leaky Cisterns or Living Water? (2:12–13) A Puzzling Verb Becomes a Word of Salvation (2:20) Prophetic Pornography (2:20–25) Jeremiah in the Synagogue (2:4–28)

10 Jeremiah 3: A Rare Allusion to God the Father (3:4,19) Holy Forgetting (3:15–18) 3:24–25

11 Jeremiah 4: A Subversive Translation (4:1–2) The Circumcised Heart (4:4) Reading Metaphor (4:7) Does God Deceive? (4:9–10) Body and Soul (4:19–22) Apocalypse Now (4:23–28) Contradiction as Problem and Opportunity (4:27) Dressing Down a Gussied‐Up Female (4:29–31)

12 Jeremiah 5: Nothing Bad Will Happen to Us (5:12) Divine Fire Consuming Human Wood (5:14) An Appalling and Horrible Thing (5:30–31)

13 Jeremiah 6: Two Roads Diverged (6:16) Buying Salvation (6:20) Jeremiah as Fortress and/or Refiner (6:27)

14 Jeremiah 7: A Den of Thieves (7:1–15) A Troubling Contradiction (7:21–24)

15 Jeremiah 8: Reading Jeremiah as Science (8:7) The Balm of Gilead (8:22)

16 Jeremiah 9: A Fountain of Tears (9,1,18) Internalizing the Prophet’s Cry (9:2) Death Climbs in the Windows (9:21)

17 Jeremiah 10: Superstition and Science (10:2–5) Who Will Not Fear You? (10:7) Wise Fools (10:12–16) Humans Are Not Masters of Themselves (10:23–24) Correct Me, O Lord (10:24) Pour Out Thy Wrath (10:25)

18 Jeremiah 11: Let Us Put Wood in his Bread (11:19)

19 Jeremiah 12: A Lawsuit Against God (12:1–4) Shameful Revenues (12:13)

20 Jeremiah 13: Jeremiah’s Loincloth (13:1–11) Jeremiah’s Tears (13:17) Unsettling Images (13: 22–27)

21 Jeremiah 14: The Inn and the Manger (14:7–9)

22 Jeremiah 15: Saints Alive (15:1) Woe is Me, My Mother (15:10) Changing Fashions in Prayer (15:15) Is Jeremiah Blasphemous? (15:18) A Divine Reprimand Reconsidered (15:19)

23 Jeremiah 16: Prophetic Celibacy (16:1–4) Hunters and Fishers (16:16–18)

24 Jeremiah 17: Misplaced Trust (17:5) Is the Human Heart Deep, or Depraved? (17:9–10) The Partridge (17:11)

25 Jeremiah 18: The Surprise of Divine Freedom (18:1–12)

26 Jeremiah 19: Jeremiah Smashes a Jug

27 Jeremiah 20–21: Jeremiah in the Stocks (20:1–6) Divine Deception (20:7) Whose Violence and Destruction? (20:8) A Reproach and a Derision (20:8) A Burning Fire (20:9) Do Saints Curse? (20:13–18)

28 Jeremiah 22: The Burial of an Ass (22:18–19) Jeremiah and the Lost Ark (22:29)

29 Jeremiah 23: The Righteous Branch (23:5–6) False Prophets (23:9–40)

30 Jeremiah 24: Two Baskets of Figs (24:1–10)

31 Jeremiah 25:

32 Jeremiah 26–28: Jeremiah’s Yoke (Jer 27:2; 28:1–17) False Prophets

33 Jeremiah 29: Build and Plant (29:1–6) Praying for the Enemy (29:7) Seventy Years (29:10) God’s Inscrutable Plans (29:11) Jeremiah as Contemporary Prophet (Jer 29:19)

34 Jeremiah 30–31: Hope in the Midst of Trauma (30:1–3) Rachel Weeps in Every Century (31:15–17) Gender‐Bending (31:22) The New Covenant (31:31–34)

35 Jeremiah 32–33: A Strange Real Estate Deal

36 Jeremiah 34: Taking Back the Gift of Freedom (34:8–22)

37 Jeremiah 35:

38 Jeremiah 36:

39 Jeremiah 37–38: Dungeon and Cistern Ancient Allegories (38:1–13) A Model for Political Resistance (38:1–16) The Cistern as Spiritual Prison (38:1–6). Ebed‐Melek Rescues Jeremiah (38:7–13) Jeremiah’s Lie (38:24–27)

40 Jeremiah 39: Zedekiah Captured (39:4–7) Ebed‐Melech Becomes Abimelech (39:15–18)

41 Jeremiah 40–43: How Did the Prophet Escape the Burning City? (40:1–6) The Murder of Gedaliah (40:7– 41:17) How Long, O Lord? (42:7) The Stones of Tahpanhes (43:8–13)

42 Jeremiah 44: Uppity Women (44:15–19) Martyrdom of Jeremiah

43 Jeremiah 45:

44 Jeremiah 46–51:

45 Glossary

46 Bibliography

47 Brief Biographies

48 Index

49 End User License Agreement

1 Introduction Figure 1 Rembrandt van Rijn, Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem Figure 2 Jeremiah with scroll and Ark. Wall fresco in the synagogue at Dura ... Figure 3 John of Damascus, Sacra Parallela . Bibliothèque Nationale de France... Figure 4 Prophet Jeremiah. Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. De Agostini Pict... Figure 5 Ms Or 20 f. 13v The Prophet Armia, miniature from the “Jami’ al‐Taw... Figure 6 Headpiece to Jeremiah in the Coverdale Bible 1535. Reproduced by pe... Figure 7 The Prophet Jeremias. Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus. Icones ... Figure 8 Jeremiah before Zedekiah. Theatrum Biblicum 1643. Rare Books Divisi... Figure 9 Title page of Michael Ghislerius, In Ieremiam prophetam commentarii Figure 10 Frontispiece to Jérémie, Poëme en Quatre Chants , by M. Demara...Figure 11 A children’s Jeremiah from Charles Foster, Bible Pictures and What ...Figure 12 Jeremiah resists the government. D.C. Comics, Picture Stories from ...Figure 13 Jeremiah pictured as the young reader of Arthur S. Maxwell’s, The ...Figure 14 Jeremiah models resisting ridicule. My Book of Bible Stories, Watc...Figure 15 Jeremiah bullied. Children’s story Bible from the early twentieth ...Figure 16 Louis Rosenthal charity medal, 1938. Private collection.Figure 17 Marc Chagall, Solitude , 1933. Tel Aviv Museum of Art. © Artists Ri...Figure 18 “Lamentation for the Ages.” Doug Johnson.