Fabrikant-Burke Prophetic Conflict and Scribal Culture

Ancient Exegetical Imagination in the Book of Jeremiah
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-11-156517-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 567, 230 Seiten

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Prophetic conflict, or true and false prophecy, is a classic centerpiece in biblical scholarship. The dominant critical approach has long regarded biblical discourse about prophetic conflict as a reflex of historical socioreligious and ideological conflicts and polemics in ancient Israel. Taking its cue from major developments in the study of the Hebrew Bible—especially inner-biblical interpretation and scribal culture—this book argues that prophetic conflict in the book of Jeremiah is a scribal literary invention.
Jeremiah's prophetic opponents, whose speeches are suffused with inner-biblical allusions, are best understood as exegetical constructs that owe their very existence to the ancient literary imagination. Meticulously designed, these imagined opponents fulfil a strategic exegetical function within the Jeremianic tradition. Prophetic conflict, reassessed through the lens of scribal culture, emerges as a literary vehicle for articulating a scribal grammar, a set of exegetical rules, for interpreting salvation and judgment in the Jeremianic tradition.
The scribal invention of prophetic conflict opens a window onto ancient Israelite literary culture, scribal hermeneutics, harmonization, incipient notions of scriptural coherence, and the formation of the book of Jeremiah.

Zielgruppe

Biblical scholars interested in prophecy, prophetic literature, s

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fabrikant-Burke, Olga

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Olga Fabrikant-Burke , Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Großbritannien.

Olga Fabrikant-Burke , Ridley Hall, Cambridge, United Kingdom.