The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
68. Jeremiah: Why Is He So Well Remembered?
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
Benedetta Rossi [+]
Pontifical Biblical Institute
Benedetta Rossi is Associate Professor of Old Testament Exegesis at Pontifical Biblical Institute (Rome). Her research interests are Prophecy and the book of Jeremiah; Deuteronomy, its composition and production; the relation between Pentateuch and Prophetic Literature. She also focuses on Cultural Hegemony and the production of sacred texts in the Second Temple period. Her recent publications are articles and book chapters on Deuteronomy, Jeremiah, and prophetic books. She recently coedited with Diana Edelman, Kåre Berge and Philippe Guillaume the volume Deuteronomy in the Making: Studies in the Production of Debarim (De Gruyter: 2021).
Description
Jeremiah, the longest book in the Hebrew Bible, is also the one that devotes the most space to the figure of the prophet. It is bound up with the events that led to the end of the kingdom of Judah, but the major differences between the Hebrew and Greek text indicate that the Jeremiah scroll was still evolving in the last centuries of the common era.