Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Hebrew Union College Annual
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2019) 27-87
Keywords:
Jeremiah In rabbinical literature
;
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Abstract:
Although that the Hebrew Bible provides no explicit basis for attributing Lamentations to Jeremiah, the view is ubiquitous in rabbinic sources. This popular rabbinic assertion has led numerous scholars to the conclusion that the early rabbis canonized Lamentations precisely because Jeremiah composed it. The argument, however, does not hold. In attributing the Book of Lamentations to Jeremiah rabbinic sources made a conscious choice to either invent or perpetuate the assumption for strategic exegetical purposes. Rabbinic sources generally rely on a deutronomic theology, and Lamentations, on its face, appeared to undermine the rabbinic understanding of theodicy. They thus strategically ascribed the book to the Prophet Jeremiah, who, in their view, would never offer so radical a challenge to the preferred rabbinic image of God as just and merciful
DOI:
10.15650/hebruniocollannu.90.2019.0027
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