Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword to Hermeneia
  • Author's foreword
  • Editor's note
  • Introduction : Preliminary remarks
  • Part one : The text of the Book of Jeremiah. The relation of M and G ; the nature of G : preliminary remarks
  • The contrastive sequence of chapters in G and M
  • The contrast in translation of the two halves of G
  • The translation technique of the old Greek
  • The date of the old Greek translation
  • The origin of the proto-Septuagintal and proto-Masoretic texts ; the nature of the proto-Septuagintal text
  • The nature and date of the proto-Masoretic text
  • The later Greek versions
  • The Vulgate (V)
  • The Peshitta (S)
  • The Aramaic Targum (T)
  • Part two : Analysis of the literary development of the Book of Jeremiah. Preliminary remarks
  • History of discussion
  • A plausible theory for the growth of the book of Jeremiah : preliminary remarks
  • The first two scrolls, and the identification of the first scroll : chapters 1-6
  • Further discussion of the initial form of the second scroll : chapters 7-10
  • A fresh scroll in 594?
  • The inclusion of four prose passages
  • Three small sequences now found within chapters 21-24
  • The preservation of other early material now found in chapters 10-20
  • A separate, hopeful scroll : the development of chapters 26-36
  • The oracles against foreign nations ; the addition of 25:15-29 and 30-38
  • The narrative of the final months of Jeremiah's career, chapters 37-44
  • Later additions to the collection
  • Part three : The prophet Jeremiah. Preliminary remarks
  • Section A : The life and times of Jeremiah. Birth of Jeremiah (627-626) ; Josiah's reform (622)
  • The septennial reading of Deuteronomy
  • A propagandist for Josiah (615-609) ; the Battle of Megiddo (609)
  • From the Temple Sermon (609) to the Battle of Carchemish (605) ; the first scroll
  • The Babylonian invasion of Philistia (604) ; the drought begins ; the king burns the scroll (601)
  • The word of irrevocable judgment ; the second scroll ; the counter-liturgy of drought and battle ; the declaration of celibacy and the smashing of the flask ; the opposition of the optimistic prophets and the first confessions (601-600)
  • Babylon renews the pressure on Judah ; the first siege of Jerusalem (599-597)
  • The Jerusalem Conference and its consequences (594)
  • The second siege of Jerusalem (588-587)
  • The new covenant : the flight into Egypt (587)
  • Conclusion
  • Section B : The sources on which Jeremiah drew : the data. Preliminary remarks
  • Jeremiah's reminiscences of the traditions in Genesis
  • Jeremiah's reminiscences of Moses and to material in Exodus
  • Possible parallels in Leviticus and Numbers
  • Possible parallels in Joshua and Judges
  • Jeremiah's reminiscences of events in the time of Samuel
  • Jeremiah's reminiscences of events during the kingship of David and Solomon
  • Jeremiah's reminiscences of the ninth-century prophets
  • Jeremiah's reminiscences of the eighth-century siege of Jerusalem
  • Jeremiah's dependence on the eighth- and seventh-century prophets : preliminary remarks
  • Jeremiah's dependence on Amos
  • Jeremiah's dependence on Hosea
  • Jeremiah's dependence on Isaiah
  • Jeremiah's dependence on Micah
  • Jeremiah's dependence on the seventh-century prophets : Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk
  • Relations between Jeremiah and Deuteronomy : preliminary remarks
  • Relations between Jeremiah and Deuteronomy 32 and 33.
  • Deuteronomy 12-26 as background for Jeremiah's poetry
  • Deuteronomy 12-26 as background for Jeremiah's prose
  • Material in the prose of Deuteronomy outside chapters 12-26 as background for Jeremiah's poetry and prose
  • Jeremiah's dependence on the Decalogue and on the Curses : were these parts of proto-Deuteronomy?
  • Two instances of dependence between Jeremiah and Deuteronomy : in which direction?
  • Instances in which late Deuteronomy appears to be dependent on Jeremiah
  • The shape of proto-Deuteronomy
  • The question of Huldah's oracle
  • Relations between Jeremiah and the Psalms : preliminary remarks
  • Psalms on which Jeremiah drew : cases of fair certitude
  • Mutual borrowing? : Psalm 107
  • Psalms dependent on Jeremiah
  • Jeremiah's dependence on the wisdom tradition, especially Proverbs
  • Section C : The person and proclamation of Jeremiah. Preliminary remarks
  • The prophet Jeremiah : his tradition and his role
  • Jeremiah's use of language
  • The content of Jeremiah's proclamation
  • Section D : The impact of Jeremiah on his own and later generations. Preliminary remarks
  • Jeremiah's impact on his own generation
  • Jeremiah's impact on Ezekiel
  • Jeremiah's impact on Lamentations
  • Jeremiah's impact on the exilic Deuteronomists
  • Jeremiah's impact on Job
  • Jeremiah's impact on Deutero-Isaiah
  • Jeremiah's impact on Trito-Isaiah
  • Jeremiah's impact on the remainder of the Isaianic corpus
  • Jeremiah's impact on Zechariah 1-8
  • Jeremiah's impact on the remainder of the prophetic corpora
  • Jeremiah's impact on Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles
  • Jeremiah's impact on Daniel and on the Deuterocanonical Books
  • Jermiah's impact on the Pseudepigrapha
  • Jeremiah's impact on the Qumran literature
  • Jeremiah's impact on the New Testament
  • Commentary. 26:1-24 : The Temple Sermon and its consequences
  • 27:1-22 : The yoke of the King of Babylon
  • 28:1-17 : Jeremiah's confrontation with Hananiah
  • 29:1-23 : A letter to the exiles
  • 29:24-32 : Shemaiah opposes the message of Jeremiah
  • 30:1-31:40 : The book of comfort
  • 32:1-44 : Jeremiah buys a field
  • 33:1-13 : God will rebuild the houses of Jerusalem
  • 33:14-26 : A future for Levitical priests and Davidic kingship
  • 34:1-7 : The fate of Zedekiah
  • 34:8-22 : Breach of faith concerning slavery
  • 35:1-19 : The example of the Rechabites
  • 36:1-32 : The king burns Jeremiah's scroll
  • 37:1-44:30 : The final months of Jeremiah's career
  • 45:1-5 : Yahweh's word to Baruch
  • 46:1-51:58 : The oracles against foreign nations
  • 46:1-12 : Egypt has stumbled and fallen
  • 46:13-28 : Egypt will go into exile
  • 47:1-7 : Philistia will be washed away
  • 48:1-47 : Moab will be brought down
  • 49:1-6 : Rabbah will be destroyed, and the Ammonites dispossessed
  • 49:7-22 : Edom will fall
  • 49:23-27 : The Aramean cities will panic and be deserted
  • 49:28-33 : Both nomadic and sedentary Arabs will be defeated
  • 49:34-39 : Yahweh's sovereignty reaches even to Elam
  • 50:1-51:58 : Babylon too will fall
  • 51:59-64 : Jeremiah sends word to Babylon of her destruction
  • 52:1-34 : A historical appendix
  • Bibliography.