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Jeremiah : an introduction and study guide : prophecy in a time of crisis / by Mary E. Mills.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: T & T Clark study guides to the Old Testament ; 20Publisher: London : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury, 2017Description: 95 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780567671059
Other title:
  • Jeremiah : prophecy in a time of crisis
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BS 1525.53 .M626 2017
Contents:
Introduction -- Reading the book of Jeremiah -- Historical criticism and the study of Jeremiah -- The continuing role of historical critical enquiry -- The move to rhetorical criticism -- Terror, pain and chaos: The rhetorical focus on Jeremiah -- Bodies, space and excess as conceptual tools for reading Jeremiah -- Jeremiah: Theology, story, history.
Summary: This guide provides a concise introduction to the ways the book of Jeremiah has been interpreted by scholars, and to new possibilities of interpretation still open to readers. Outlining approaches the reader encountering the book may best adopt, Mary E. Mills moves into the reception of the prophetic book in the modern period. The role of historical criticism has been fundamental but she shows how it should be supplemented by recent explorations into the rhetorical structures and devices by which the book communicates its messages. Historically oriented scholars drew upon the book as a record of the words and career of a prophet in monarchical Judah. Literary investigation, on the other hand, focuses on the mood and tone of the literary work. Both interpretative strands acknowledge the persistence of a mood of terror and fragmentation within Jeremiah, the result of its origins in a period of great political upheaval. Examination of the poetic devices a society uses to process its social and cultural trauma leads the reader to a deeper appreciation of the variety of sources and genres found in Jeremiah. This study guide provides reading tools which readers can then develop at their own pace--
List(s) this item appears in: Christian Living Education - August 2018
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Originally published 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- Reading the book of Jeremiah -- Historical criticism and the study of Jeremiah -- The continuing role of historical critical enquiry -- The move to rhetorical criticism -- Terror, pain and chaos: The rhetorical focus on Jeremiah -- Bodies, space and excess as conceptual tools for reading Jeremiah -- Jeremiah: Theology, story, history.

This guide provides a concise introduction to the ways the book of Jeremiah has been interpreted by scholars, and to new possibilities of interpretation still open to readers. Outlining approaches the reader encountering the book may best adopt, Mary E. Mills moves into the reception of the prophetic book in the modern period. The role of historical criticism has been fundamental but she shows how it should be supplemented by recent explorations into the rhetorical structures and devices by which the book communicates its messages. Historically oriented scholars drew upon the book as a record of the words and career of a prophet in monarchical Judah. Literary investigation, on the other hand, focuses on the mood and tone of the literary work. Both interpretative strands acknowledge the persistence of a mood of terror and fragmentation within Jeremiah, the result of its origins in a period of great political upheaval. Examination of the poetic devices a society uses to process its social and cultural trauma leads the reader to a deeper appreciation of the variety of sources and genres found in Jeremiah. This study guide provides reading tools which readers can then develop at their own pace--

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