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GtrsRGr8 · 12-11-2016, 08:57 PM

The following is a free dissertation on the Book of Jeremiah and issues regarding the written word (Scripture).

The dissertation, seemingly without any major changes, was subsequently published by Eisenbrauns, an academic publisher, in 2009 (see their dedicated webpage for the book here).

Full disclosure: although the list price of the physical (hardcover cloth) book is (retails for) $44.50, the book is currently on sale for $31.15. It is available only in cloth at the publisher's and at Amazon, however, and is not available anywhere other than at DukeSpace in a digital form, to my knowledge.

Title: “See and Read All These Words”: The Concept of the Written in the Book of Jeremiah.
Format(s): PDF.
Author(s): Chadwick Lee Eggleston.
Publisher: Chadwick Lee Eggleston/Eisenbrauns.
Pages: xvi + 277/xiii + 194.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): None yet at Amazon; None yet at GoodReads. Review, via Eisenbrauns:
Several provocative conclusions emerge from Eggleston's work. First, if texts are composed by prophets and scribes as authoritative divine words, they are "an incipient form of scripture" (p. 168), and therefore one cannot conceive of canonization as a process of taking pre-existing, non-authoritative texts and enshrining them as divine. Second, the portrayal of scribes, the prophet, and YHWH himself as writers of authoritative texts implies that the book of Jeremiah does not view itself as emerging from the inspired prophet alone—as is suggested by conservative evangelicalism—but rather one must make room for some concept of "inspired redactors."

Eggleston's work is well organized and clearly written. . . . Christian interpreters who hold the Bible as inerrant have much to consider here, especially given the complicated process of prophetic communication and also the ways in which even at the moment of textualization biblical texts envision future audiences (cf. Rom 15:4; 1 Cor 10:11; 1 Pet 1:10–12).— Matthew H. Patton, Covenant Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Vandalia, OH in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 59 (2016): 834–36
Price: $0.00.
Lowest Price at (or through Amazon) if available from there: $44.50.
Book Description (Amazon):
Unusually for the Hebrew Bible, the book of Jeremiah contains a high number of references to writers, writing, and the written word. The book (which was primarily written during the exilic period) demonstrates a key moment in the ongoing integration of writing and the written word into ancient Israelite society. Yet the book does not describe writing in the abstract. Instead, it provides an account of its own textualization, thereby blurring the lines between the texts in the narrative and the texts that constitute the book. Scrolls in Jeremiah become inextricably intertwined with the scroll of Jeremiah.

To authenticate the book of Jeremiah as the word of YHWH, its tradents present a theological account of the chain of transmission from the divine to the prophet and then to the scribe and the written page. Indeed, the book of Jeremiah extends the chain of transmission beyond the written word to include the book of Jeremiah itself and, finally, a receiving audience. To make the case for this chain of transmission, See and Read's three exegetical chapters attend to writers (YHWH, prophets, and scribes), the written word, and the receiving audience.

The first exegetical chapter describes the standard chain of transmission from the divine to the prophet to the scribe, demonstrating that all three agents in this chain are imagined as writers and that writing was increasingly understood as a suitable conduit for the divine word. The second exegetical chapter attends to the written word in Jeremiah, especially Jeremiah's self-references (e.g., in this book , all these words ) as a pivotal element in the extension of the chain of transmission beyond the words in the text to the words of the text. Finally, the third exegetical chapter considers the construction of the audience in the book of Jeremiah, concluding that the written word, as Jeremiah imagines it, is to be received by a worshiping audience through public reading but delivered via textual intermediaries.
Comments: I believe this to be a legal free download, due to the fact that it is a dissertation of a student of Duke University. As such, it was deposited at DukeSpace, Duke University's repository of freely-accessible dissertations and other resources.
URL: http://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace...pdf;sequence=1 (direct link).

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GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Academic Book on the Book of Jeremiah and Scripture--FREE. At Least $31.15 Elsewhere. The following is a *free* dissertation on the Book of Jeremiah and issues regarding the written word (Scripture). The dissertation, seemingly without any major changes, was subsequently published by Eisenbrauns, an academic publisher, in 2009 (see their dedicated webpage for the book here). Full disclosure: although the list price of the physical (hardcover cloth) book is (retails for) $44.50, the book is currently on sale for $31.15. It is available only in cloth at the publisher's and at Amazon, however, and is not available anywhere other than at DukeSpace in a digital form, to my knowledge. Title: *“See and Read All These Words”: The Concept of the Written in the Book of Jeremiah. Format(s):* PDF. Author(s): Chadwick Lee Eggleston. Publisher: Chadwick Lee Eggleston/Eisenbrauns. Pages: xvi + 277/xiii + 194. Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): None yet at Amazon; None yet at GoodReads. Review, via Eisenbrauns: Several provocative conclusions emerge from Eggleston's work. First, if texts are composed by prophets and scribes as authoritative divine words, they are "an incipient form of scripture" (p. 168), and therefore one cannot conceive of canonization as a process of taking pre-existing, non-authoritative texts and enshrining them as divine. Second, the portrayal of scribes, the prophet, and YHWH himself as writers of authoritative texts implies that the book of Jeremiah does not view itself as emerging from the inspired prophet alone—as is suggested by conservative evangelicalism—but rather one must make room for some concept of "inspired redactors." Eggleston's work is well organized and clearly written. . . . Christian interpreters who hold the Bible as inerrant have much to consider here, especially given the complicated process of prophetic communication and also the ways in which even at the moment of textualization biblical texts envision future audiences (cf. Rom 15:4; 1 Cor 10:11; 1 Pet 1:10–12).— Matthew H. Patton, Covenant Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Vandalia, OH in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 59 (2016): 834–36 Price: *$0.00. Lowest Price at (or through Amazon) if available from there:* $44.50. Book Description (Amazon): Unusually for the Hebrew Bible, the book of Jeremiah contains a high number of references to writers, writing, and the written word. The book (which was primarily written during the exilic period) demonstrates a key moment in the ongoing integration of writing and the written word into ancient Israelite society. Yet the book does not describe writing in the abstract. Instead, it provides an account of its own textualization, thereby blurring the lines between the texts in the narrative and the texts that constitute the book. Scrolls in Jeremiah become inextricably intertwined with the scroll of Jeremiah. To authenticate the book of Jeremiah as the word of YHWH, its tradents present a theological account of the chain of transmission from the divine to the prophet and then to the scribe and the written page. Indeed, the book of Jeremiah extends the chain of transmission beyond the written word to include the book of Jeremiah itself and, finally, a receiving audience. To make the case for this chain of transmission, See and Read's three exegetical chapters attend to writers (YHWH, prophets, and scribes), the written word, and the receiving audience. The first exegetical chapter describes the standard chain of transmission from the divine to the prophet to the scribe, demonstrating that all three agents in this chain are imagined as writers and that writing was increasingly understood as a suitable conduit for the divine word. The second exegetical chapter attends to the written word in Jeremiah, especially Jeremiah's self-references (e.g., in this book , all these words ) as a pivotal element in the extension of the chain of transmission beyond the words in the text to the words of the text. Finally, the third exegetical chapter considers the construction of the audience in the book of Jeremiah, concluding that the written word, as Jeremiah imagines it, is to be received by a worshiping audience through public reading but delivered via textual intermediaries. Comments: I believe this to be a legal *free* download, due to the fact that it is a dissertation of a student of Duke University. As such, it was deposited at DukeSpace, Duke University's repository of freely-accessible dissertations and other resources. URL: http://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace...pdf;sequence=1 (direct link). Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 12-11-2016 at 09:09 PM.