Jeremiah Through the Centuries. Mary Chilton Callaway

      1  Cover

      2  Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries

      3  List of Illustrations Introduction Commentary

      4  Series Editors’ Preface

      5  Acknowledgments

      6  Testimonia

      7  Introduction Theory and Practice of Reception History Jeremiah in Three Guises Jeremiah in Antiquity Medieval Jeremiahs Early Modernity Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Practical Notes for Using the Commentary

      8  Jeremiah 1: Word of the Lord or Words of Jeremiah? (Jer 1:1) Jeremiah Before Birth (1:4–5) A Prophet to the Nations (1:5) Resisting God (1:6) Filling Jeremiah’s Mouth The Job Description (1:10) God’s Pun (1:11–12) What’s Cooking? (1:13–16)

      9  Jeremiah 2: God’s Lawsuit (2:1–13) Leaky Cisterns or Living Water? (2:12–13) A Puzzling Verb Becomes a Word of Salvation (2:20) Prophetic Pornography (2:20–25) Jeremiah in the Synagogue (2:4–28)

      10  Jeremiah 3: A Rare Allusion to God the Father (3:4,19) Holy Forgetting (3:15–18) 3:24–25

      11  Jeremiah 4: A Subversive Translation (4:1–2) The Circumcised Heart (4:4) Reading Metaphor (4:7) Does God Deceive? (4:9–10) Body and Soul (4:19–22) Apocalypse Now (4:23–28) Contradiction as Problem and Opportunity (4:27) Dressing Down a Gussied‐Up Female (4:29–31)

      12  Jeremiah 5: Nothing Bad Will Happen to Us (5:12) Divine Fire Consuming Human Wood (5:14) An Appalling and Horrible Thing (5:30–31)

      13  Jeremiah 6: Two Roads Diverged (6:16) Buying Salvation (6:20) Jeremiah as Fortress and/or Refiner (6:27)

      14  Jeremiah 7: A Den of Thieves (7:1–15) A Troubling Contradiction (7:21–24)

      15  Jeremiah 8: Reading Jeremiah as Science (8:7) The Balm of Gilead (8:22)

      16  Jeremiah 9: A Fountain of Tears (9,1,18) Internalizing the Prophet’s Cry (9:2) Death Climbs in the Windows (9:21)

      17  Jeremiah 10: Superstition and Science (10:2–5) Who Will Not Fear You? (10:7) Wise Fools (10:12–16)