Jeremiah (Dis)Placed (Paperback)

Assistant Professor A.R. Pete Diamond

ISBN 10: 0567687082 / ISBN 13: 9780567687081

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Edinburgh, 2019

About this Item

Paperback. Jeremiah (Dis)Placed collects the best of the papers and responses presented to the 2007 and 2008 sessions of the Writing/Reading Jeremiah Group (SBL) offering an assessment of new interpretative directions in current Jeremiah Studies.The Writing/Reading Jeremiah group was re-launched at the 2007 annual meeting of the SBL. Its purpose is to invite new readings and constructions of meaning with the book of Jeremiah "this side" of historicist paradigms and postmodernism. The group welcomes all strategies of reading Jeremiah that seek to reconfigure, redeploy, and move beyond conventional readings of Jeremiah. Their manifesto: not by compositional history alone, nor biographical portrayal alone, nor their accompanying theological superstructures; rather, we seek interpretation from new spaces opened for reading Jeremiah by the postmodern turn. Collects the best of the papers and responses of the Writing/Reading Jeremiah Group (SBL) offering an assessment of new interpretative directions in current Jeremiah Studies. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jeremiah (Dis)Placed (Paperback)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Edinburgh
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567687082
• ISBN 13: 9780567687081
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Jeremiah (Dis)Placed collects the best of the papers and responses presented to the 2007 and 2008 sessions of the Writing/Reading Jeremiah Group (SBL) offering an assessment of new interpretative directions in current Jeremiah Studies.The Writing/Reading Jeremiah group was re-launched at the 2007 annual meeting of the SBL. Its purpose is to invite new readings and constructions of meaning with the book of Jeremiah "this side" of historicist paradigms and postmodernism. The group welcomes all strategies of reading Jeremiah that seek to reconfigure, redeploy, and move beyond conventional readings of Jeremiah. Their manifesto: not by compositional history alone, nor biographical portrayal alone, nor their accompanying theological superstructures; rather, we seek interpretation from new spaces opened for reading Jeremiah by the postmodern turn.

About the Authors

A. R. Pete Diamond, Assistant Professor Santa Barbara City College, is the author of numerous contributions to the field including, "Interlocutions: The Poetics of Voice in the Figuration of YHWH and his Oracular Agent, Jeremiah," in Interpretation 62/1 (2008).

Laura Quick is Assistant Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies at Princeton University, USA.

Louis Stulman is Professor of Religious Studies, University of Findlay. His numerous publications on Jeremiah include the Abingdon Old Testament Commentary on Jeremiah (2005), Order Amid Chaos: Jeremiah as Symbolic Tapestry (Sheffield, 1998).

Jacqueline Vayntrub is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale University, USA