The focus of the paper is to examine the phrases "And YHWH restored the fortunes of Job" and "For all the evil that YHWH had brought upon him" found in Job 42:10–11. Using the method of "inner biblical allusion," the paper argues that the author of Job intentionally alluded to p…
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Having reigned only three months, Jehoiachin appears to have been an insignificant king in the tumultuous last days of Judah. But his rehabilitation at the end of 1-2 Kings and the attention he receives in Jeremiah and Ezekiel suggest that his theological significance outweighs …
Poem prayers in the book of Jeremiah use strong, sometimes accusatory, language, in the first person, in speaking to God. They stand out from the rest of the book, with little or no connection to preceding and following sections. The traditional list includes Jeremiah 11:18-20, …
Four oracles appear in Jeremiah 21:11-23:8 detailing the failure and future of the final kings in Judah, also known as the King Collection. The final oracle against Jehoiachin (he also appears with the names Coniah / Jeconiah) precedes the announcement of the unnamed new Davidid…
Building on existing motive clause research, this work extends the analysis of motive clauses by examining statements of divine motive across the whole of the Hebrew Bible. Anscombe's three motive categories: backward-looking motives, motives-in-general, and intentions are used …
This is a dissertation on Jewish-Christian dialogue and concerns the ways in which that dialogue can take place in a post-Holocaust, post-Christendom world. The argument assumes that any attempt at such dialogue requires that the religious convictions of both Jews and Christians…
This study offers a narratological and intertextual reading of Jeremiah 37:1–40:6. This text features the interaction of and relationship between the prophet Jeremiah and King Zedekiah just before and immediately following the fall of Jerusalem. The stories are narrated in a liv…
Contemporary scholars generally translate the Hebrew stem znh as “prostitute” or “cultic prostitute” and understand it as a metaphor for Israel's alleged apostasy. However prostitution in the Biblical texts is neither punished nor censured making this a weak metaphor for prophet…
The historical and ideological antecedents to Jeremiah's activity, most notably the early traditions associated with Shiloh and Josiah's Deuteronomic reform, significantly inform any discussion of the prophet or the book that bears his name. The prophet's background as a member …
Jeremiah's message of hope is emphasized in his Book of Comfort and brought into sharp focus especially in the promise of the new covenant. This new covenant is in many aspects the renewal of the old, Mosaic covenant, even though Jer 31 seems to emphasize the discontinuity betwe…
Understanding the artist Georges Rouault as a prophet for his time and place may provide a crucial key to the interpretation and valuation of his work, and its method of presentation. Prior studies have carefully analyzed his plastic technique, development of style and iconograp…
Jeremiah and 2 Kings are clearly intended to be mutually interpretive. Not only do they share long parallel passages, but the literary history of these parallel texts suggest that both works were intentionally shaped to draw attention to the connection between them. The Deuteron…
The present study is a 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, we will select representative interpretations of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and theologica…
The struggle to read Jer 31:31-34 as Christian Scripture has a long and divided history. Yet remarkably little has been done to grapple with the depth of this struggle in the Christian tradition from the post-Nicene period to the modern era. This thesis attempts to show the valu…
The purpose of the dissertation was to analyze the use of narrative space in Jeremiah 37-45. Narrative space was comprised of locations and movement within those locations. The methodology for this study was the "close reading" method of narrative criticism. For the study of loc…
This study analyzes the use of the name and titles of God in the 'announcement formula' (traditionally, "messenger formula") kh `mr +PN (Kohamar Adonai "thus has said Yahweh") and the 'declaration formula' n`m + PN (N'um Adonai "oracle of/declared Yahweh") in the book of Jeremia…
Through verbal threats and graphic images of destruction, the prophet Jeremiah employs a rhetoric of horror in order to convince his audience that doom awaits an unrepentant and unreformed nation. This study is a rhetorical analysis of designated horror texts found in the book o…
In recent Jeremiah scholarship, a new paradigm shift has occurred to emphasize synchronic coherence in the book of Jeremiah, and it has gained more momentum from a growing concern for the presentation of the theological messages of the book as a whole. In a way that is compatibl…
Four texts from the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah are interpreted to provide guiding images for the office and person of a prophetic Christian educator. They are: Jeremiah 1:1-19, Jeremiah 7:1-15, Jeremiah 15: 10-21, and Jeremiah 32:1-15. Relying upon Walter Brueggemann's work The Pro…