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The Incoherence Of Yhwh In Jeremiah As An Opening For Hermeneutical Possibilities: Deconstructing Traditional Methodological Entanglements With Text-Linguistics And Psychology, Oliver Glanz, Torben Bergland

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

This article pursues three objectives and is interdisciplinary in nature, bringing together the skill sets of biblical scholarship and psychology. First, it seeks to critically examine the hermeneutical frameworks brought to the reading of apparently incoherent texts in Jer 7 and 8:18–9:10. Why and how are scholars finding meaning in these texts when their exegetical procedures remain limited to the tools offered by traditional historical-critical and conservative historical-grammatical methods? We argue that fruitful theological analysis of Jeremiah’s incoherent texts is compromised when following the hermeneutics of either higher-critical or traditional evangelical schools. Second, we demonstrate that the prophetic text of …