The Polemics of Exile in Jeremiah 26-45
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 5, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521879910
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; Books of the Old Testament; Religion; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Hebrew; Bibles; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament; Biblical Studies - Old Testament; Other Translations - General; Religion / Bible / Study / Old Testament; Bibles - Hebrew; (Biblical prophet); Bible.; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Deuteronomistic history (Biblical criticism); Jeremiah; Jeremiah XXVI-XLV; O.T.
Description: Scholars typically view Jeremiah 26-45 as a collection of episodes constructed during the Babylonian exile that attempts to prove the authenticity of Jeremiah's prophetic status. But Jeremiah's prophetic legitimacy was already widely accepted during the period of the Babylonian exile. These chapters serve a different purpose, namely, to provide a response by the Deuteronomistic scribes to the rise of the Ezekiel tradition and the Zadokite priesthood that threatened their influence among the exilic population. -- PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION.