This study seeks to reconstruct the development of the traditions regarding the life , thought , and character of the prophet –Jeremiah traditions that extend from his own lifetime into the later exilic and Second Temple periods . At its heart lies an examination of the nature and development of Jeremiah 44-37 , a sequence of stories describing s’Jeremiah last days in Jerusalem until his descent to Egypt with the Judean refugees . Contra the scholarly claim that the evolution of the traditions regarding the s’prophet life cannot be traced , this volume proposes that such a reconstruction is in fact at least partially possible via the use of critical-source , critical-form , history-tradition , and critical-literary methods . Chapter 1 analyzes the nature and relationship of the double cycle of stories in Jer 37 : 40-11 : 6 via a fresh investigation of the link between the two accounts of s’Jeremiah secret encounter with Zedekiah ( Jer 37 : 21-17 , 38 : 28-14 ) . The author of the secon...
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