Acknowledgments -- 1 A Dissonant Voice of Hope: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Jeremiah 30-31 -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Art and the Act of Interpretation -- 1.3 The Book of Consolation -- 1.4 The Outline of this Book -- 2 Abbreviation, Expansion or Two Traditions: The Text of Jeremiah 30-31 -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 A Textual Comparison -- 2.2.1 Zero Variants -- 2.2.2 Linguistic Exegesis -- 2.2.3 Instance where the MT Has a Corruption -- 2.2.4 Instances where the Old Greek Did Not Understand Its Vorlage -- 2.2.5 Secondary Additions in the LXX -- 2.2.6 Minor Content Variants -- 2.2.7 Content Variants -- 2.2.8 A Rearranged Unit -- 2.3 Conclusions -- 3 Cola, Canticles and Subcantos: The Macrostructure of Jeremiah 30-31 -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Previous Proposals -- 3.3 Petuha and Setuma in Various Manuscripts -- 3.4 Macro Syntactical Indicators -- 3.5 Conclusions -- 3.6 The Composition of Jeremiah 30-31: A Proposal -- 3.7 Delimitation of Lines -- 3.8 Delimitation of Strophes -- 3.9 Delimitation of Canticles -- 3.10 Remarks on the Macro-Structure of Jeremiah 30-31 -- 4 'I Will Break His Yoke From Off Your Neck': An Interpretation of Jeremiah 30:5-11 -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Text and Translation -- 4.3 Composition -- 4.3.1 Awful Terror Jer. 30:5-7 -- 4.3.2 Prophecy of Liberation Jeremiah 30:8-9 -- 4.3.3 Oracle of Salvation Jeremiah 30:10-11 -- 4.4 Literary and Conceptual Unity of Jeremiah 30:5-11 -- 5 Divine Changeability: An Interpretation of Jeremiah 30:12-17 -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Text and Translation -- 5.3 Literary Unity or Complex Composition? -- 5.3.1 Critical Positions: Duhm, Volz and Holladay -- 5.3.2 Arguing for Literary Unity -- 5.4 The Conceptual Coherence of Jer. 30:12-17 -- 5.4.1 Motif and Model: Incurable Fracture and Divine Force Majeure -- 5.4.2 The Linguistics of lākēn -- 5.4.3 Relations between the Actors.

5.5 Divine Changeability and Shifts in Time -- 6 Between Anger and Harmony: An Interpretation of Jeremiah 31:15-22 -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 A Voice Was Heard in Ramah -- 6.2.1 The Quotation in Matthew -- 6.2.2 The Literary Structure of Jeremiah 31:15-17 -- 6.2.3 A Conceptual Comparison between Jer. 31:15-17 and Mt. 2:18 -- 6.2.4 Conclusion -- 6.3 Human Repentance and Divine Compassion -- 6.3.1 Text and Translation of Jer. 31:18-20 -- 6.3.2 Compositional and Stylistic Observations -- 6.3.3 Yhwh Hears Ephraim's Complaint -- 6.3.4 Ephraim's Complaint and Change -- 6.3.5 Yhwh's Compassionate Reaction -- 6.4 The Woman shall encompass the Man -- 6.4.1 Text and Translation -- 6.4.2 Imperatives to Return -- 6.4.3 Ketîb-Qerê and the Return of the Divine Glory -- 6.4.4 An Enigmatic Motivation -- 6.5 The Conceptual Coherence of Jeremiah 31:15-22 -- 7 Sour Fruit and Blunt Teeth: The Metaphorical Meaning of the māšāl in Jeremiah 31:29 -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Tragic Fatalism versus Personal Responsibility -- 7.3 The Context of the Saying -- 7.4 The Interpretation of the New Saying -- 8 Covenant and Creation: An Interpretation of Jeremiah 31:31-37 -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The Text of Jeremiah 31:31-34 -- 8.2.1 Translation -- 8.2.2 Textual Remarks -- 8.2.3 Syntactical Analysis -- 8.2.4 Stylistic Remarks -- 8.2.5 Text-internal Chronology -- 8.2.6 On Dating Texts -- 8.2.7 The Text-external Chronology of Jer. 31:31-34 -- 8.2.8 New Hope -- 8.3 The Reliability of Reality -- 8.3.1 Jeremiah 31:35-37: Translation and Textual Remarks -- 8.3.2 Conservatio Creationis -- 8.3.3 Time and Space: Divine Construction and Threatened Reality -- 8.3.4 Adynata -- 8.3.5 The Reliability of Reality -- 8.4 Covenant and Cosmos-Reliability and Relationship-The Conceptual Coherence of Jer. 31:31-37 -- 8.4.1 History as the Ground of Being -- 8.4.2 Creation as the Ground of Being.

9 Is the Conceptual Coherence of Jeremiah 30-31 Based on an 'Exodus-Theology'? -- 9.1 The Conceptual Coherence of Jeremiah 30-31: A Few Remarks -- 9.1.1 Twofold Transformation -- 9.1.2 Sin and Sorrow: The First Transformation -- 9.1.3 Return and New Relationship -- 9.1.4 Divine Changeability -- 9.2 Exodus Theology? -- 9.2.1 Van der Wal's Thesis -- 9.2.2 Analysis of Van der Wal's Position -- 9.2.3 Conclusion -- 10 Overwhelming Wisdom, Divine Battle and New Life: The Symbol System of Jeremiah 30-31 -- 10.1 Reading a Text Theologically -- 10.2 Overwhelming Wisdom -- 10.2.1 Cosmic Law -- 10.2.2 Law to Live With -- 10.3 Divine Battle -- 10.3.1 Cosmic Battle -- 10.3.2 God's Royal and Loyal Power -- 10.4 New Life -- 10.4.1 The Secret of Life -- 10.4.2 Daily Life -- 10.5 The Conceptual Coherence of Jeremiah 30-31 -- 10.5.1 Restoration and Return -- 10.5.2 Relation between Theme and Tripartite Theology -- 10.5.3 Text in Context (Short) -- 10.5.4 The Distortion of the Economy of Guilt -- Bibliography -- Index.