Understanding Participant-Reference Shifts in the Book of Jeremiah: A Study of Exegetical Method and Its Consequences for the Interpretation of Referential Incoherence

Understanding Participant-Reference Shifts in the Book of Jeremiah: A Study of Exegetical Method and Its Consequences for the Interpretation of Referential Incoherence......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
List of Abbreviations......Page 14
WIVU Transliteration of Hebrew Alphabet......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
The Case - Person, Number, Gender Shifts: Data and Interpretation......Page 21
Observations about the Written Text......Page 23
Observations about Data-Interpretation......Page 24
Conclusion: In Need of Understanding PNG Shifts......Page 26
Overview of Interpretative Suggestions......Page 29
Level of Exegetical Practice......Page 30
Number Shift as Indication of Diachronic Traces......Page 31
Person and Number Shift as Indication of Synchronic Conventions......Page 33
Level of Language-Systematic Approaches......Page 36
Conclusion: Interpretative Risks......Page 46
Research Procedure......Page 48
Procedure of Presentation......Page 51
1 Methodological Reflections......Page 54
1.1. Introduction......Page 56
1.2.1. A General Description of the Subject-Object Relation of Reason......Page 58
1.2.2. Frameworks of Reason as Part of the Subject-Object Relationship......Page 59
1.2.2.1. Ontological Framework......Page 60
1.2.2.2. Epistemological Framework......Page 61
1.2.2.3. Theological Framework......Page 63
1.2.2.3.1. Reason’s Direction: About Autonomy......Page 64
1.2.2.3.2. Reason’s Setting: About Being and Foundational Ontology......Page 65
1.2.2.4. Reason’s Hypotheticity: In Need of Material Frameworks......Page 68
1.2.4. Method......Page 70
1.2.4.1. Methodological Conditions......Page 71
1.2.4.2. The Formal Condition......Page 72
1.3. Phenomenology of the Biblical Text as Object......Page 74
1.3.1. Text as Phenomenon......Page 75
1.3.1.1. No Text without Language......Page 76
1.3.1.2. No Text without Meaning......Page 77
1.3.1.3. No Text without Author......Page 78
1.3.1.4. No Text without Context......Page 80
1.3.1.5. No Text without ‘External’ Referentiality......Page 81
1.3.1.6. No Text without Readers......Page 84
1.3.1.7. No Text without Telos......Page 85
1.3.1.8. No Text without Reception and Transmission......Page 88
1.3.1.9. No Text without Discourse......Page 89
1.3.2. Summary......Page 92
1.4.1. Methodological Consequences of Reason's Interpretation and the View of the Text as Object......Page 93
1.4.1.1. The Doom of External Reference......Page 94
1.4.1.2. The Doom of the Author......Page 99
1.4.1.2.1. From Author to Redactor......Page 100
1.4.1.2.2. Textual Incongruity and Formal Conditions......Page 103
1.4.1.2.3. The Self and the Author......Page 105
1.4.1.3. The Doom of the Reader......Page 108
1.4.1.4. The Doom of History......Page 112
1.4.2. Summary......Page 117
2 Proposal of Method: Analytical Instruments......Page 120
2.1. General Remarks......Page 122
2.2. Phenomenological Reading: The Initial Methodological Step......Page 124
2.2.1.1. Database Architecture: Monad Dot Feature......Page 128
2.2.1.2. Database Production: Bottom-Up......Page 132
2.2.2. Specific Procedure: Registration and Collection of PNG Shifts......Page 137
3.1. Introduction......Page 144
3.2.1. Statistics......Page 151
3.2.2. Description......Page 152
3.2.3.1. Final Condition......Page 154
3.2.3.2. Formal Condition......Page 157
3.3.1. Statistics......Page 159
3.3.2. Description......Page 160
3.3.3.1. Formal Condition......Page 163
3.3.3.2. Final Condition......Page 164
3.4.2. Description......Page 166
3.4.3.1. Formal Condition......Page 174
3.4.3.2. Final Condition......Page 176
3.5.1. Statistics......Page 178
3.5.2.1. Holladay’s ‘Ethical Stance’......Page 179
3.5.2.2. Holladay’s Shift Interpretations......Page 181
3.5.3. Evaluation......Page 186
3.5.3.1. Formal Condition......Page 187
3.5.3.2. Final Condition......Page 188
3.6.1. Statistics......Page 189
3.6.2. Description......Page 190
3.6.3. Evaluation......Page 193
3.6.3.1. Formal Condition......Page 194
3.6.3.2. Final Condition......Page 198
3.7. Conclusion......Page 199
3.7.1. Bringing the Absence of PNG Shifts into Focus......Page 203
3.7.2. Critique......Page 205
4.1. Introduction......Page 212
4.2. PNG Shifts and Intertextuality......Page 214
4.2.1. General Observation......Page 216
4.2.2.1. Shifting and Non-Shifting in Doublet Partners (5 of 70 Sets [11 PNG Shifts])......Page 218
4.2.2.2. Shifting Caused by All Partners (5 of 70 Sets [8 PNG Shifts])......Page 224
4.2.2.3. No Shifting by Any Partners (55 of 70 Sets [93 PNG Shifts])......Page 229
4.2.3. Conclusion......Page 234
4.3.1. Codex Leningradensis and Qumran Fragments......Page 235
4.3.1.1. General Observation......Page 237
4.3.1.2. Detailed Observations......Page 239
4.3.1.2.1. Qumran Type 1–......Page 240
4.3.1.2.2. Qumran Type 1+......Page 241
4.3.1.2.3. Special Case: Jer 10:10–12 and 4Q71......Page 244
4.3.1.3. Conclusion......Page 247
4.3.2.1. General Observation......Page 248
4.3.2.2.1. LXX Type 0 and 0~......Page 250
4.3.2.2.2. LXX Type 1– and 1+......Page 253
4.3.2.3. Conclusion......Page 257
4.4. Summary......Page 258
5.1. Introduction......Page 260
5.2. System of Data Registration and Data Indexation......Page 265
5.3. Remarks on Presentation Procedure......Page 269
5.4.1.1. N Shift: sg = pl......Page 271
5.4.1.2. N Shift: Compound Subject (Pragmatics)......Page 278
5.4.1.4. N Shift: Idiomaticness......Page 279
5.4.1.5. P Shift: Reference to the Self......Page 280
5.4.1.6. P Shift: Subjectivization......Page 281
5.4.1.7. G Shift: Shifting Relational Role......Page 282
5.4.2. SPS beyond the Sentence Boundary (Text Level)......Page 283
5.4.2.1. N Shift: sg = pl......Page 284
5.4.2.2. N Shift: Extension and Condensation......Page 287
5.4.2.3. N Shift: Indicating DSC Shifts......Page 289
5.4.2.4. N Shift: Pragmatics......Page 292
5.4.2.5. P Shift: Indicating DSC Shifts......Page 293
5.4.2.6. P Shift: Reference to the Self......Page 298
5.4.2.7. P Shift: Subjectivization......Page 301
5.4.2.8. P Shift: Objectivization......Page 303
5.4.2.9. P Shifts: Indicating 1P Centric SS Shifts within a DSC......Page 308
5.4.2.10. P Shift: Pragmatics......Page 311
5.4.2.11. G Shift: Shifting Relational Role......Page 312
5.4.2.13. G Shift: Scribal Error......Page 315
5.4.3. Conclusion......Page 316
5.5. Interpretation of "Multiple Position Shift" (MPS)......Page 318
5.5.1. Indicating DSC Shift (SS = DSC)......Page 320
5.5.1.1. Imperatives as DSC Shift Indicator......Page 321
5.5.1.2. Vocatives as DSC Shift Indicator......Page 323
5.5.1.3. Interrogatives as DSC Shift Indicator......Page 326
5.5.1.4. Hebr. כִּי Particle as DSC Shift Indicator......Page 327
5.5.1.5. Hebr. הִנֵּה Particle as DSC Shift Indicator......Page 329
5.5.1.6. Deictic Elements......Page 330
5.5.1.7. Clause-Type Shift......Page 332
5.5.1.8. PNG Coherence with Former DSC......Page 333
5.5.1.9. Communicational Logic and Semantic Contiguity......Page 335
5.5.2. 1P Centric SS Shifts within a DSC......Page 337
5.5.3. Objectivization......Page 339
5.5.4. Subjectivization......Page 342
5.5.5. sg = pl......Page 345
5.5.6. Shifting Relational Role......Page 347
5.5.7. Contextual Introduction between DSI and DSC......Page 350
5.5.8. Summary......Page 352
5.6. Conclusion......Page 353
6 Conclusions on Method and the Interpretation of PNG Shifts......Page 360
6.1. Implications for Reading and Translating Jeremiah......Page 362
6.2. Methodological Conclusions......Page 367
Appendix. (SESB Screenshots)......Page 372
Bibliography......Page 380
Index of Scripture......Page 388
Index of Authors......Page 395