These landmark essays on the prophet Jeremiah allow us to hear the prophet's voice as an urgent message in our own day.
The contents include:
- Listening for the Prophetic Word
- Jeremiah: Portrait of the Prophet
- The Book of Jeremiah: Meditation upon the Abyss
- Recent Scholarship: Intense Criticism, Thin Interpretation
- Jeremiah's Use of Rhetorical Questions
- An Ending That Does Not End Theology in Jeremiah: Creatio in extremis
- Next Steps in Jeremiah Studies
- Hearing the Word in Exile
- The Prophetic Word of God and History
- A Second Reading of Jeremiah after the Dismantling
- A Shattered Transcendence: Exile and Restoration
- A "Characteristic" Reflection on What Comes Next
- Haunting Book--Haunted People
- Carrying Forward the Prophetic Task
- Prophetic Ministry
- A World Available for Peace
- God's Relentless "If"
- When Jerusalem Gloats over Shiloh
- Why Prophets Won't Leave Well Enough Alone.
