Jer 36:23. Jehoiakim watches the scroll burn. Jehoiakim burns Jeremiah's words. Johann Dietenberger, Biblia. 1534. Courtesy of the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection, Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology, Emory University.
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Jer 36:23. Jehoiakim burns Jeremiah’s scroll. Jan Luykens in Christoph Weigel’s Historiae celebriores Veteris Testamenti Iconibus representatae (1712). Private collection.
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Jer 36:23. Jehoiakim burns the scroll. Christoph Weigel. Biblia ectypa. 1695. Courtesy of the Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology, Emory University.
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Jer 38:6. Matthäus Merian. Jeremiah dropped into the cistern, engraved by F.H. van Hove. Private collection.
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M. Demaris, Jérémie, Poëme en quatre Chants. 1771, page 56. Private collection.
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Jer 38:6. From an eighteenth‐century family bible published in Leeds, England. Private collection.
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Jer 38:6. Jeremiah lowered into the cistern. From an English family Bible, 1834. Private collection.
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Jer 38:6. Jeremiah in the cistern as trope of personal trouble for contemporary Christians. Courtesy of Pastor Jeff Warren, Park Cities Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas. 2014
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Jer 38:12–13. Ebed Melek directs Jeremiah’s rescue. Jan van Luyken, 1712. Private collection.
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Jer 38:12–13. Ebed Melek directs Jeremiah’s rescue. Bernard Picart. Courtesy of the Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology.
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Jer 38:12–13. Ebed Melek drawn by William Gunning King for Bibby’s Annual 1914. Private collection.
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Jer 38:13. An American Ebed Melek for children. Herbert Rudeen 1959. Private collection.
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Abimelech asleep with his figs. Early fifteenth‐century French Bible. Pierpont Morgan Library. Ms M. 395, fol.99r.
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Jer 43:9. Illustration in a nineteenth‐century family Bible. Private collection.
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Jer 44. Jeremiah preaches in Egypt. From a sixteenth‐century German Bible. Private collection.
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Martyrdom of Jeremiah in the twelfth‐century Edili Bible. The Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, ms. Edili 125, f.121r. Reproduced with permission of MiBACT. Further reproduction by any means is prohibited.
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Martyrdom of Jeremiah in fourteenth‐century Latin Bible. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Latin 17198, fol. 264v.
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Martyrdom of Jeremiah in Bible historiale. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Latin 4915.
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Jeremiah holding the Ark, with the martyrdom in background. Engraving by Johann Friedrich Fleischberger, seventeenth century. Private collection.
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Martyrdom of Jérémie in M. Demarais, Jérémie, Poëme en Quatre Chants, Paris 1771. Private collection.
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Jer 51:7. Lucas Cranach, The Whore of Babylon, 1522.
Series Editors’ Preface
The Blackwell Bible Commentaries series, the first to be devoted primarily to the reception history of the Bible, is based on the premise that how people have interpreted, and been influenced by, a sacred text like the Bible is often as interesting and historically important as what it originally meant. The series emphasizes the influence of the Bible on literature, art, music and film, its role in the evolution of religious beliefs and practices, and its impact on social and political developments. Drawing on work in a variety of disciplines, it is designed to provide a convenient and scholarly means of access to material until now hard to find, and a much‐needed resource for all those interested in the infl uence of the Bible on Western culture.
Until quite recently this whole dimension was for the most part neglected by biblical scholars. The goal of a commentary was primarily, if not exclusively, to get behind the centuries of accumulated Christian and Jewish tradition to one single meaning, normally identified with the author’s original intention. The most important and distinctive feature of the Blackwell Commentaries is that they will present readers with many diff erent interpretations of each text, in such a way as to heighten their awareness of what a text, especially a sacred text, can mean and what it can do, what it has meant and what it has done, in the many contexts in which it operates.
The Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries will consider patristic, rabbinic (where relevant), and medieval exegesis, as well as insights from various types of modern criticism, acquainting readers with a wide variety of interpretative techniques. As part of the history of interpretation, questions of source, date, authorship, and other historical‐critical and archaeological issues will be discussed; but since these are covered extensively in existing commentaries, such references will be brief, serving to point readers in the direction of readily accessible literature where they can be followed up.
Original to this series is the consideration of the reception history of specific biblical books arranged in commentary format. The chapter‐by‐chapter arrangement ensures that the biblical text is always central to the discussion. Given the wide influence of the Bible and the richly varied appropriation of each biblical book, it is a difficult question which interpretations to include. While each volume will have
