Jeremiah between Destruction and Exile: From Biblical to Post-Biblical Traditions

Full title
Jeremiah between Destruction and Exile: From Biblical to Post-Biblical Traditions
Research notes

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Reference type
Author(s)
Goldstein, Ronnie
Year
2013
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Dead Sea Discoveries
Volume
20
Issue / Series Volume
3
Abbreviated Series Name
DSD
Pages
433–451
Work type
Label
23/12/2013
Abstract

This article focuses on the affinities and divergences between the processes that the traditions about Jeremiah underwent within extra-biblical literature and those that occurred within the Hebrew Bible itself. The narratival frameworks of many of the pseudepigraphical stories about Jeremiah focus on the period following the destruction of the city and the traditions regarding Jeremiah’s fate in the wake of the destruction take a fluid form in post-biblical literature. Accordingly, the article deals particularly with the fate of the prophet by the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem; the traditions about Jeremiah in chains; the historization process linking Jeremiah and Gedaliah; the different geographical traditions regarding the location of Jeremiah after the exile; the development of the traditions regarding Jeremiah and his relation to Baruch; and the portraying of prophecy as needing preparation.