Scholars Crossing LBTS Faculty Publications and Presentations Summer 2013 Intertextuality and the Portrayal of Jeremiah the Prophet Gary E. Yates Liberty University,
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[email protected]. ________________________________________________________________________________ BIBLIOTHECA SACRA 170 (July–September 2013): 283–300 INTERTEXTUALITY AND THE PORTRAYAL OF JEREMIAH THE PROPHET Gary E. Yates IMOTHY POLK HAS NOTED, “Nothing distinguishes the book of Jeremiah from earlier works of prophecy quite so much as T the attention it devotes to the person of the prophet and the prominence it accords the prophetic ‘I’, and few things receive more scholarly comment.”1 More than simply providing a biographical or psychological portrait of the prophet, the book presents Jeremiah as a theological symbol who embodies in his person the word of Yahweh and the office of prophet.2 In fact the figure of Jeremiah is so central that a theology of the book of Jeremiah “cannot be for- mulated without taking into account the person of the prophet, as the book presents him.”3 The purpose of this article is to explore how intertextual con- nections to other portions of the Bible inform a deeper understand- ing of the portrayal of Jeremiah the prophet and his theological significance in the book of Jeremiah.