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Witnessing a Prophetic Text in the Making : The Literary, Textual and Linguistic Development of Jeremiah 10:1-16 / Noam Mizrahi.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 502Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 242 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110522594
  • 9783110530001
  • 9783110530162
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 224.206 23
LOC classification:
  • BS1525.52 .M59 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: From cult to polemic (Jer 10:2–5, 8–9, 14–16) -- Chapter 2: From wisdom to hymn (Jer 10:12–13) -- Chapter 3: Language and identity (Jer 10:11) -- Chapter 4: From nature to history (Jer 10:10) -- Synthesis and conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index of sources -- Index of authors -- Index of words and phrases
Summary: The book of Jeremiah poses a challenge to biblical scholarship in terms of its literary composition and textual fluidity. This study offers an innovative approach to the problem by focusing on an instructive case study. Building on the critical recognition that the prophecy contained in Jer 10:1-16 is a composite text, this study systematically discusses the various literary strands discernible in the prophecy: satirical depictions of idolatry, an Aramaic citation, and hymnic passages. A chapter is devoted to each strand, revealing its compositional development-from the earliest recoverable stages down to its late reception. A range of pertinent evidence-culled from the literary, text-critical, and linguistic realms-is examined and sets within broader perspectives, with an eye open to cultural history and the development of theological outlook.The investigation of a particular text has important implications for the textual and compositional history of Jeremiah as a whole. Rather than settling for the common opinion that Jeremiah developed in two main stages, reflected in the MT and LXX respectively, a nuanced supplementary model is advocated, which better accords with the complexity of the available evidence.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: From cult to polemic (Jer 10:2–5, 8–9, 14–16) -- Chapter 2: From wisdom to hymn (Jer 10:12–13) -- Chapter 3: Language and identity (Jer 10:11) -- Chapter 4: From nature to history (Jer 10:10) -- Synthesis and conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index of sources -- Index of authors -- Index of words and phrases

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The book of Jeremiah poses a challenge to biblical scholarship in terms of its literary composition and textual fluidity. This study offers an innovative approach to the problem by focusing on an instructive case study. Building on the critical recognition that the prophecy contained in Jer 10:1-16 is a composite text, this study systematically discusses the various literary strands discernible in the prophecy: satirical depictions of idolatry, an Aramaic citation, and hymnic passages. A chapter is devoted to each strand, revealing its compositional development-from the earliest recoverable stages down to its late reception. A range of pertinent evidence-culled from the literary, text-critical, and linguistic realms-is examined and sets within broader perspectives, with an eye open to cultural history and the development of theological outlook.The investigation of a particular text has important implications for the textual and compositional history of Jeremiah as a whole. Rather than settling for the common opinion that Jeremiah developed in two main stages, reflected in the MT and LXX respectively, a nuanced supplementary model is advocated, which better accords with the complexity of the available evidence.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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