In the first half of the 20th century there was immense scholarly interest in the biography of the prophet Jeremiah as the background for understanding the development of the book of Jeremiah. Around the turn of the century this interest disappeared, but it has now resurfaced in a transformed configuration as work seeking to analyze the creation of the literary persona, Jeremiah the prophet.
This volume examines the construction of Jeremiah in the prophetic book and its afterlife, presenting a wide range of scholarly approaches spanning the understanding of Jeremiah from Old Testament times via the Renaissance to the 20th century, and from theology to the history of literature.

Else K. Holt is Associate Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has published several articles on the theology of Jeremiah and its reception in both English and Danish. She is the co-editor with Paul Kim and Andrew Mein of the upcoming Concerning the Nations (November 2014).
Carolyn J. Sharp is Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at Yale Divinity School, USA. Among her books are Prophecy and Ideology in Jeremiah (2003) and Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible (2009). She is co-editor with Christl M. Maier of Prophecy and Power: Jeremiah in Feminist and Postcolonial Perspective (2013).

Contents
Contributors
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1. Introduction
Else K. Holt, Aarhus University, Denmark and Carolyn J. Sharp, Yale Divinity School, USA
2. Duhm and Skinner's Invention of Jeremiah,
Joe Henderson, Biola University, USA
3. Seduced by Method: History and Jeremiah 20
Mary Chilton Callaway, Fordham University, USA
4. Sunk in the Mud: Literary Correlation and Collaboration between King and Prophet in the Book of Jeremiah
Barbara Green, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, USA
5. Bare Naked: A Gender Analysis of the Naked Body in Jeremiah 13
Amy Kalmanofsky, The Jewish Theological Seminary New York, USA
6. Figuration in Jeremiah's Confessions: With Questions for Isaiah's Servant
Kathleen M. O'Connor, Columbia Theological Seminary, USA
7. Deathscape and Lament in Jeremiah and Lamentations
Mary E.Mills, Liverpool Hope University, USA
8. First-Person Figurations of Servant and Suffering in Isaiah and Jeremiah: A Response to Mary Mills and Kathleen O'Connor
A. R. Pete Diamond (1950-2011) and Louis Stulman, University of Findlay, USA
9. Art and Atrocity, and the Book of Jeremiah
Louis Stulman, University of Findlay, USA
10. Prophetic Sign Acts as Performances
Johanna Erzberger, Institut Catholique de Paris, France
11. Jeremiah the Lamenter: A Synoptic Reading
Else K. Holt, Aarhus University, Denmark
12. Indexes