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Josiah’s Reform and Jeremiah’s Scroll: Historical Calamity and Prophetic Response

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This exciting new study of the prophet Jeremiah attributes to him a pivotal significance in the historical period of Josiah’s reign.

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SKU: 978-1-905048-31-1

This exciting new study of the prophet Jeremiah attributes to him a pivotal significance in the historical period of Josiah’s reign.

He was, so Leuchter argues, one of the central agents of Josiah’s propaganda machine and was intimately involved with the king’s political agenda. Jeremiah, himself originally a member of the scribal school that composed the Deuteronomistic literature, encouraged the Shilonites of Anathoth to become active in Josiah’s programme in the North following the waning of Assyrian power. Dismayed by the Shilonites’ rejection of him and Josiah, and by the king’s death at Megiddo, Jeremiah came to a radically new understanding of the divine purpose, encapsulated in the famous Temple sermon of Jeremiah 7 and evidenced in the prophet’s debates with the political establishment in Jerusalem in the years that followed.

In his thoroughgoing historical reconstruction, Leuchter outlines a very specific sequence of events that took their rise from the Shilonite rejection of Deuteronomic policy, and on that basis carefully demarcates the texts that would have been included in Jeremiah’s first scroll (the Urrolle ). Leuchter’s monograph will make an important contribution to the study of the history and the literature of the late seventh century BCE.

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  1. Marvin A. Sweeney, Review of Biblical Literature.

    In sum, this is a very provocative and suggestive study. Although there are grounds for challenge at various points …, Leuchter’s monograph demands serious attention from all scholars concerned with the book of Jeremiah, Judean history in the late-monarchic period, and the development of theological and political thinking in ancient Judah.

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Author
Mark Leuchter
List Price
£50 / $85 / €75
Series
Hebrew Bible Monographs, 6
Scholars' Price
£25 / $42.50 / €37.50
ISBN 13 hardback
978-1-905048-31-1
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Hardback
Page Extent
x + 206
Publication Date
Jan-06
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