Troubling Jeremiah presents essays by Jeremiah scholars who are troubled by the biblical book and give the scholarship on Jeremiah trouble in turn. Essays seek to move beyond the Duhm-Mowinckel source criticism of the book to address matters of metaphor, final form, intertextuality, and the relationship of the book to various audiences of readers. Taken together, the 24 essays in this volume press for an end to 'innocent' readings of Jeremiah inasmuch as current models prove inadequate for troubling the very Jeremiah they have already helped to reveal.

Author Biography

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). A.R. Pete Diamond is Adult Education Coordinator, All Saints Episcopal Church, Santa Barbara, California. Kathleen O'Connor is Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. Louis Stulman is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Findlay, Findlay, Ohio. 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).