The Oxford Handbook of Jeremiah

Louis Stulman is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy at the University of Findlay in Ohio. His teaching and research interests focus on the prophetic corpus in the Hebrew Bible as disaster and survival literature. He has authored The Prose Sermons of Jeremiah (1986), Order Amid Chaos (1998), Jeremiah AOTC (2005), "The Book of Jeremiah" in the New Oxford Annotated Bible, 5th Edition (2018), co-authored You Are My People: An Introduction to Prophetic Literature (2010), and co-edited Troubling Jeremiah (1999), Inspired Speech: Prophecy in the Ancient Near East Essays in Honour of Herbert B. Huffman (2004) and Jeremiah (Dis)Placed: New Directions in Writing/Reading Jeremiah (2011). He is the founding co-chair of the SBL Book of Jeremiah Group.Edward Silver's research focuses on ancient Near Eastern prophecy as political speech. He has worked on the textual development of the Book of Jeremiah and on classical Hebrew rhetoric. Hisstudy of multiple rhetorical questions in the Book of Jeremiah is forthcoming from Eisenbrauns/Penn State University Press, and he is currently working on a study of the legends of the Book of Judges as subaltern political discourse. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2009 and currently teaches in the Jewish Studies program at CUNY, Hunter College.

• Part 1 Historical and Cultural Contexts of Origin1. The Historical Contexts of the Books of Jeremiah -- C. L. Crouch2. Jeremiah: Diaspora in Service to Exile -- Jill Middlemas3. The Representation of Egypt in the Book of Jeremiah -- Safwat Marzouk4. The Historical Jeremiah -- Mark LeuchterPart 2 Textual History and Structure5. Two Ancient Editions of the Book of Jeremiah -- Hermann-Josef Stipp 6. The Double Text of Jeremiah Revisited -- Alexander Rofé7. The Last Stage of the Literary History of the Book of Jeremiah -- Emanuel Tov 8. Textualization and the Book of Jeremiah -- Joachim Schaper 9. The Prophet Jeremiah: Legends, Traditions and their Evolution -- Ronnie Goldstein 10. The Development of Hebrew and the Book of Jeremiah -- Aaron D. Hornkohl11. On Poetry and Prophecy in Jeremiah -- Job Y. Jindo12. Language Variation in the Book of Jeremiah and its Cultural and Social Background -- Frank H. Polak Part 3 Critical Questions of Interpretation13. Jeremiah: Content and Structure -- Mark E. Biddle14. Theories of Prophecy in Jeremiah -- Nathan Mastnjak15. Jeremiah and Prophetic Authority -- Matthijs J. de Jong 16. Jeremiah and Inner Biblical Exegesis -- Dalit Rom-ShiloniPart 4 Major Internal Themes17. Contested Theologies in the Book of Jeremiah -- George Fischer 18. Poetic Violence in the Book of Jeremiah -- Amy Kalmanofsky19. Portraits of the Prophet in the Book of Jeremiah -- Else K. Holt20. Jeremiah: The Traumatized Prophet -- L. Juliana Claassens 21. Imprisoned in Prose: Narrating Jeremiah's Confinement and the Babylonian Assault of Jerusalem -- Keith Bodner22. The Jeremian Oracles Against the Nations -- Rhiannon Graybill23. Jeremiah's Deathscapes -- Mary Mills24. Hope and Resilience in the Books of Jeremiah -- Marvin A. Sweeney25. The Ultimate Commitment: A Covenant Written on (the Tablet of) the Heart and Its Ancient Near Eastern Background -- Herbert B. Huffmon26. Written on the Heart, Erased from the Mind: Rewriting Moral Agency in Jeremiah -- Samuel E. Balentine27. Jeremiah's Non-Burial Refrain -- Sarah C. JobePart 5 Reception Engagements28. Jeremiah in Lamentations -- Elizabeth Boase29. Jeremiah at Qumran -- Devorah Dimant30. Jeremiah and His Prophecies in the New Testament -- Catrin H. Williams31. The Prophet Jeremiah in Islamic Thought -- Roberto Tottoli32. The Figure of Jeremiah in the Work of Stefan Zweig and Rainer Maria Rilke -- Rüdiger Görner33. Jeremiah Interpretation in Subaltern Context -- Katho Robert Bungishabaku34. Jeremiah in Art -- Mary Chilton Callaway35. Jeremiah and Homiletics -- Carolyn J. SharpPart 6 Significance of the Book of Jeremiah for Key Contemporary Political Issues36. Ecological Hermeneutics and Jeremiah -- Kristel Clayville 37. Playing with Death: Violent Exceptions and Exceptional Violence in the Book of Jeremiah -- Steed Vernyl Davidson38. Jeremiah and Gender -- Christl M. Maier

The purpose of this new Handbook of Jeremiah is to unite the current diversity of approaches in Jeremiah research in 'a synthetic anthology'. In my opinion this Handbook is a milestone, very suitable for obtaining a swift overview of the recent developments in Jeremiah research. The reading of this book is also an adventure that can be talked about for a long time.