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The Polemics of Exile in Jeremiah 26-45

By Mark Leuchter

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Publish Date

November 5, 2007

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Language

eng

Pages

320

Description:

Scholars typically view Jeremiah 26-45 as a collection of episodes constructed during the Babylonian exile that attempts to prove the authenticity of Jeremiah's prophetic status. But Jeremiah's prophetic legitimacy was already widely accepted during the period of the Babylonian exile. These chapters serve a different purpose, namely, to provide a response by the Deuteronomistic scribes to the rise of the Ezekiel tradition and the Zadokite priesthood that threatened their influence among the exilic population. -- PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION.