Reading with the faithful
Subtitle: interpretation of true and false prophecy in the book of Jeremiah from ancient to modern
By: Seth B. Tarrer
Series: Journal of theological interpretation supplements -- 6; Journal of theological interpretation supplements -- 6.
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Winona Lake, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781575067056
Subjects: Jeremia; Prophetie; Bible; Pseudoprophetie; Biblical teaching; Criticism, interpretation; Exegese; Prophecy; History
Description: "This monograph is a study of the history of interpretation. In that sense it does not fit neatly into the category of Wirkungsgeschichte. Moving through successive periods of the Christian church's history, Tarrer selects representative interpretations of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and theological works dealing explicitly with the question of true and false prophecy in an effort to present a "sampling" of material from the span of the church's existence. As evidenced by the list of "false prophets" uncovered at Qumran, along with the indelible interpretive debt owed by Christian interpreters such as Jerome and Calvin to Jewish exegetical methods, Jewish interpretation's vast legacy quickly exceeds the scope of this project. From the sixteenth-century onward, the focus on the Protestant church is, again, due to economy. In the end, Tarrer concludes that the early church and pre-modern tradition evidenced a recurring appeal to some form of association between Jeremiah 28 and the deuteronomic prophetic warnings in Deuteronomy 13 and 18"--Back cover.
Notes: Slightly revised version of the author's Ph. D. dissertation (University of St. Andrews, 2009).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-201) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The early church. St. Jerome (c. 345-420); title: Theodoret of Cyrus (c. 393-c. 460); title: Medieval biblical interpretation of true and false prophecy. Glossa ordinaria; title: St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274); title: John Calvin amidst the Reformers. John Calvin (1509-1564); title: The prophets and which law? The Enlightenment era. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679); title: Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677); title: Campegius Vitringa (1659-1722); title: Antoine Augustin Calmet (1672-1757); title: Thomas Newton (1704-1782); title: The search for coherence in the nineteenth century. Conservative, or "confessional" readings; title: Georg Frederick Seiler (1753-1807); title: Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg (1802-1869); title: Karl Friedrick Keil (1807-1888); title: Hans Conrad von Orelli (1846-1912); title: Mediating and historical-critical positions; title: George Adam Smith (1856-1942); title: Georg Heinrich August Ewald (1803-1875); title: Bernhard Duhm (1847-1928); title: Abraham Kuenen (1828-1891); title: True and false prophecy and the rise of Old Testament theologies in the twentieth century (1910-1986); title: Gerhard von Rad (1901-1971); title: James A. Sanders; title: Brevard S. Childs (1923-2007); title: A way forward: since 1986. James E. Brenneman; title: Armin Lange; title: R.W.L. Moberly; title: General conclusions.