Writing/Reading Jeremiah

Call For Papers: In 2022, the Writing/Reading Jeremiah section will have three sessions. These sessions will consist of a combination of invited papers as well as papers selected in response to the Call to Papers. In the first session, “The Future Beyond Chaos?”, we invite papers that explore the development of the theme of the future in the context of the crisis wrought by the end-of-the-world scenario associated with Babylonian imperial aggression. While paying attention to the historical reality of Babylon, Jeremiah links the fate of Judah/Jerusalem to various moral failings. Similarly, the nation’s future is theologically tied to moral renovation and the Babylonian Empire. The logic of crisis and chaos requiring political and other choices appears in different ways in the book. Papers that look at how the book depicts the interplay of crisis and chaos with the future are welcome. We are particularly interested in work that deploys interdisciplinary approaches that investigate how these ideas in Jeremiah develop into apocalyptic and other world-ending discourses in biblical and extrabiblical sources. For the second session, “Jeremiah in Conversation with Jonah,” we invite papers that explore textual and thematic relationships between these two prophetic books, including, but not limited to prophetic identity; the traumatized prophet representing a traumatized community; Oracles against the Nations, etc. We encourage papers that pursue creative analyses of these intertextual relationships and reflect on the implications of these connections in different contexts. In the final session, we will celebrate the recent publication of the Oxford Handbook of Jeremiah with a round table discussion by a number of the contributors to this important volume, led by the editors, Louis Stulman and Ed Silver.

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