Conference on Jeremiah's Scriptures

CONFERENCE:

Jeremiah’s Scriptures: Production, Reception, Interaction, Transformation
Jer 2,1-2
International Conference June 22-26, 2014

Centro Stefano Franscini on the Monte Verità

The conference on "Jeremiah’s Scriptures: Production, Reception, Interaction, and Transformation" aspires to engage recent and current scholarship that has advanced source redaction, and literary criticism of Jeremiah and related Baruch and Jeremianic traditions in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Jewish and Christian Literature.

There are vital traditions about Jeremiah within, but also outside of the book that his name and engage in texts linked to his name. Accordingly, the conference will take into account the history of recension and the growth of tradition – biblical and para-biblical – as aspects of the expansion of the earlier sources within and beyond the book of Jeremiah. Thus, our proposed conference and volume of proceedings include a discussion of the literary growth of the book of Jeremiah, but not in a way that is limited to the study of that biblical book alone. The texts that play a role in the development of traditions connected to the figures of Jeremiah and Baruch, taken together, constitute what we call “Jeremiah’s Scriptures.”

The invited speakers include scholars of Biblical Studies, Ancient Judaism, and Dead Sea Scrolls from the U.S., Canada, Israel, Switzerland, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Austria.

Location

The conference will take at the Centro Stefano Franscini on the Monte Verità (Ascona near Locarno, Switzerland).

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(HT Hindy Najman, one of the organizers.)