Uprooting and Planting

Examines the location of the prophecies in Jeremiah's life and considers the book's social, ethical, theological, political, and devotional implications. This work reflects the ferment in studies of Jeremiah.
Table Of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Leslie C. Allen--An Educated Evangelical
Chapter 2: Jeremiah 3:22b: An Intentionally Ambiguous, Multivalent Riddle Text
Chapter 3: Do Jeremiah and Ezekiel Share a Common View of the Exile?
Chapter 4: Prophecy Interpreted: Intertextuality and Prophecy
Chapter 5: Jeremiah and the Poor
Chapter 6: Jeremiah and the Superpower
Chapter 7: Yhwh, the God of Israel...and of Edom?
Chapter 8: Jeremiah 2-10 as a Unified Literary Composition
Chapter 9: The Book of Jeremiah (MT) and Its Early Second Temple Background
Chapter 10: Word of Jeremiah--Wod of God
Chapter 11: Prophet and Singer in the Fray
Chapter 12: The Mis-Pi Rituals and Incantations and Jeremiah 10:1-16
Chapter 13: The Laments in Jeremiah and 1QH
Chapter 14: Ebed-Melech as Exemplar
Chapter 15: Baruch Among the Sages
Chapter 16: Baruch as First Reader
Chapter 17: Jeremiah's Reflection on the Isaian Royal Promise
Chapter 18: Dislocations in Time and Ideology in the Reconception of Jeremiah's Words

John Goldingay is David Allan Hubbard Professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, and formerly Principal of St John's Theological College, Nottingham, UK.