Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah: Volume 31 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780814681558)

Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah are among the so-called deuterocanonical books of the Bible, part of the larger Catholic biblical canon. Except for a short article in the Women's Bible Commentary, no detailed or comprehensive feminist commentary on these books is available so far. Marie-Theres Wacker reads both books with an approach that is sensitive to gender and identity issues. The book of Baruch--with its reflections on guilt of the fathers, with its transformation of wisdom into the Book of God's commandments, and with its strong symbol of mother and queen Jerusalem--offers a new and creative digest of Torah, writings, and prophets but seems to address primarily learned men. The so-called Letter of Jeremiah is an impressive document that unmasks pseudo-deities but at the same draws sharp lines between the group's identity and the "others," using women of the "others" as boundary markers.

Author: Marie-Theres Wacker
ISBN-10: 0814681557
ISBN-13: 9780814681558
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2016
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.20d