Contents

Preface

Part 1 Hebrew Bible

Chapter 1 Exegesis, Expansion, and Tradition-Making in the Book of Jeremiah

Chapter 2 A New Understanding of the Book of Jeremiah. A Response to Robert R. Wilson

Chapter 3 Ancient Editing and the Coherence of Traditions within the Book of Jeremiah and throughout the נביאים . A Response to Robert R. Wilson

Chapter 4 Prophets, Princes, and Kings: Prophecy and Prophetic Books according to Jeremiah 36

Chapter 5 King Jehoiakim’s Attempt to Destroy the Written Word of God (Jeremiah 36). A Response to Friedhelm Hartenstein

Chapter 6 Scribal Loyalty and the Burning of the Scroll in Jeremiah 36. A Response to Friedhelm Hartenstein

Chapter 7 The Nature of Deutero-Jeremianic Texts

Chapter 8 The “Deuteronomistic” Character of the Book of Jeremiah. A Response to Christl M. Maier

Chapter 9 A Gap between Style and Context? A Response to Christl M. Maier

Chapter 10 Deutero-Jeremianic Language in the Temple Sermon. A Response to Christl M. Maier

Chapter 11 Formulaic Language and the Formation of the Book of Jeremiah

Chapter 12 Mysteries of the Book of Jeremiah: Its Text and Formulaic Language. A Response to Hermann-Josef Stipp

Chapter 13 What Does “Deuteronomistic” Designate? A Response to Hermann-Josef Stipp

Chapter 14 Less than 300 Years. A Response to Hermann-Josef Stipp

Chapter 15 Why Jeremiah? The Invention of a Prophetic Figure

Chapter 16 Was Jeremiah Invented? The Relation of an Author to a Literary Tradition. A Response to Reinhard G. Kratz

Chapter 17 The Question of Prophetic “Authenticity.” A Response to Reinhard G. Kratz

Chapter 18 Jeremiah: The Prophet and the Concept. A Response to Reinhard G. Kratz

Part 2 Ancient Jewish Literature

Chapter 19 Confessing in Exile: The Reception and Composition of Jeremiah in (Daniel and) Baruch

Chapter 20 Scribal Culture of the Hebrew Bible and the Burden of the Canon: Human Agency and Textual Production and Consumption in Ancient Judaism. A Response to Judith H. Newman

Chapter 21 The Meanings of the Jerusalem Temple in Baruch. A Response to Judith H. Newman

Chapter 22 Text Reception and Conceptions of Authority in Second Temple Contexts. A Response to Judith H. Newman

Chapter 23 The Use and Function of Jeremianic Tradition in 1 Enoch: The Epistle of Enoch in Focus

Chapter 24 Jeremiah, Deuteronomy and Enoch. A Response to Loren T. Stuckenbruck

Chapter 25 Is Enoch also among the (Jeremianic) Prophets? A Response to Loren T. Stuckenbruck

Chapter 26 Jeremiah’s Scriptures in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Growth of a Tradition

Chapter 27 Modelling Jeremiah Traditions in the Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. A Response to Eibert Tigchelaar

Chapter 28 New Material or Traditions Expanded? A Response to Eibert Tigchelaar

Chapter 29 Unities and Boundaries across the Jeremianic Dead Sea Scrolls. A Response to Eibert Tigchelaar

Chapter 30 Jeremiah, Baruch, and Their Books: Three Phases in a Changing Relationship

Chapter 31 The Reception of a Reception: The Influence of 1 Baruch on the Structure of 5 Ezra. A Response to Matthias Henze and Liv Ingeborg Lied

Chapter 32 Textual and Material Contexts. A Response to Matthias Henze and Liv Ingeborg Lied

Chapter 33 Retelling the Story of Exile: The Reception of the Jeremiah Tradition in 4 Baruch in the Perspective of the Jewish Diaspora

Chapter 34 The Eagle and the Basket of Figs in 4 Baruch. A Response to Jens Herzer

Chapter 35 The Development of the Jeremiah Figure in 2 Baruch and 4 Baruch. A Response to Jens Herzer

Chapter 36 Jeremiah as Mystagogue: Jeremiah in Philo of Alexandria

Chapter 37 Philo and Jeremiah: A Mysterious Passage in De Cherubim. A Response to Gregory E. Sterling

Chapter 38 Jeremiah as Hierophant: Jeremiah in Philo of Alexandria. A Response to Gregory E. Sterling

Chapter 39 “I am the Man”: The Afterlife of a Biblical Verse in Second Temple Times

Part 3 Early Christian and Rabbinic Literature

Chapter 40 The Reception of Jeremiah and the Impact of Jeremianic Traditions in the New Testament:A Survey

Chapter 41 Jeremiah in the Book of Revelation. A Response to Jörg Frey

Chapter 42 The Jeremianic Covenant Theology and its Impact in the Gospel of Matthew. A Response to Jörg Frey

Chapter 43 The Commissioning of Paul: Light from the Prophet Jeremiah on the Self-Understanding of the Apostle?

Chapter 44 The Apostle Paul in the Prophetic Matrix of Jeremiah. A Response to Lutz Doering

Chapter 45 Like a Priest Exposing His Own Wayward Mother: Jeremiah in Rabbinic Literature

Chapter 46 Jeremiah in Rabbinic Theology and Baruch in Rabbinic Historiography. A Response to Ishay Rosen-Zvi

Chapter 47 Probing the Rabbis’ Criticism and Silence with Regard to Jeremiah. A Response to Ishay Rosen-Zvi

Author Index

Ancient Sources Index

Subject Index