The Oxford Handbook of Jeremiah

Louis Stulman is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy at the University of Findlay in Ohio. His teaching and research interests focus on the prophetic corpus in the Hebrew Bible as disaster and survival literature. He has authored The Prose Sermons of Jeremiah (1986), Order Amid Chaos (1998), Jeremiah AOTC (2005), "The Book of Jeremiah" in the New Oxford Annotated Bible, 5th Edition (2018), co-authored You Are My People: An Introduction to Prophetic Literature (2010), and co-edited Troubling Jeremiah (1999), Inspired Speech: Prophecy in the Ancient Near East Essays in Honour of Herbert B. Huffman (2004) and Jeremiah (Dis)Placed: New Directions in Writing/Reading Jeremiah (2011). He is the founding co-chair of the SBL Book of Jeremiah Group. Edward Silver's research focuses on ancient Near Eastern prophecy as political speech. He has worked on the textual development of the Book of Jeremiah and on classical Hebrew rhetoric. His study of multiple rhetorical questions in the Book of Jeremiah is forthcoming from Eisenbrauns/Penn State University Press, and he is currently working on a study of the legends of the Book of Judges as subaltern political discourse. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2009 and currently teaches in the Jewish Studies program at CUNY, Hunter College.

Part 1 Historical and Cultural Contexts of Origin
1. The Historical Contexts of the Books of Jeremiah -- C. L. Crouch
2. Jeremiah: Diaspora in Service to Exile -- Jill Middlemas
3. The Representation of Egypt in the Book of Jeremiah -- Safwat Marzouk
4. The Historical Jeremiah -- Mark Leuchter

Part 2 Textual History and Structure
5. Two Ancient Editions of the Book of Jeremiah -- Hermann-Josef Stipp
6. The Double Text of Jeremiah Revisited -- Alexander Rofé
7. The Last Stage of the Literary History of the Book of Jeremiah -- Emanuel Tov
8. Textualization and the Book of Jeremiah -- Joachim Schaper
9. The Prophet Jeremiah: Legends, Traditions and their Evolution -- Ronnie Goldstein
10. The Development of Hebrew and the Book of Jeremiah -- Aaron D. Hornkohl
11. On Poetry and Prophecy in Jeremiah -- Job Y. Jindo
12. Language Variation in the Book of Jeremiah and its Cultural and Social Background -- Frank H. Polak

Part 3 Critical Questions of Interpretation
13. Jeremiah: Content and Structure -- Mark E. Biddle
14. Theories of Prophecy in Jeremiah -- Nathan Mastnjak
15. Jeremiah and Prophetic Authority -- Matthijs J. de Jong
16. Jeremiah and Inner Biblical Exegesis -- Dalit Rom-Shiloni

Part 4 Major Internal Themes
17. Contested Theologies in the Book of Jeremiah -- George Fischer
18. Poetic Violence in the Book of Jeremiah -- Amy Kalmanofsky
19. Portraits of the Prophet in the Book of Jeremiah -- Else K. Holt
20. Jeremiah: The Traumatized Prophet -- L. Juliana Claassens
21. Imprisoned in Prose: Narrating Jeremiah's Confinement and the Babylonian Assault of Jerusalem -- Keith Bodner
22. The Jeremian Oracles Against the Nations -- Rhiannon Graybill
23. Jeremiah's Deathscapes -- Mary Mills
24. Hope and Resilience in the Books of Jeremiah -- Marvin A. Sweeney
25. The Ultimate Commitment: A Covenant Written on (the Tablet of) the Heart and Its Ancient Near Eastern Background -- Herbert B. Huffmon
26. Written on the Heart, Erased from the Mind: Rewriting Moral Agency in Jeremiah -- Samuel E. Balentine
27. Jeremiah's Non-Burial Refrain -- Sarah C. Jobe

Part 5 Reception Engagements
28. Jeremiah in Lamentations -- Elizabeth Boase
29. Jeremiah at Qumran -- Devorah Dimant
30. Jeremiah and His Prophecies in the New Testament -- Catrin H. Williams
31. The Prophet Jeremiah in Islamic Thought -- Roberto Tottoli
32. The Figure of Jeremiah in the Work of Stefan Zweig and Rainer Maria Rilke -- Rüdiger Görner
33. Jeremiah Interpretation in Subaltern Context -- Katho Robert Bungishabaku
34. Jeremiah in Art -- Mary Chilton Callaway
35. Jeremiah and Homiletics -- Carolyn J. Sharp

Part 6 Significance of the Book of Jeremiah for Key Contemporary Political Issues
36. Ecological Hermeneutics and Jeremiah -- Kristel Clayville
37. Playing with Death: Violent Exceptions and Exceptional Violence in the Book of Jeremiah -- Steed Vernyl Davidson
38. Jeremiah and Gender -- Christl M. Maier