Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah: Volume 31

By Marie-Theres Wacker

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814681557
• ISBN13: 9780814681558
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"