THE CALL OF JEREMIAH by DAVID TUDOR ... - David T Williams

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scroll of Jeremiah 36. Secondly Weippert has questioned the
Deuteronomic nature of C. By looking at the "Deuteronomic" phrases
in context, she concludes they are actually closer to A than B and so
can be seen as a Jeremianic tradition, the Deuteronomists even being
dependent on Jeremiah rather than vice versa (Weippert 1973:228 cf
Holladay 1975:408). She feels C is paranetic material, central to the
prophetic task, and so in some sense attributable to Jeremiah (cf also
section 5.4.4).
The origin of it must be sought among Jeremiah's
intimates (but that term and "Deuteronomist" are not
mutually exclusive!) (Bright 1951:27).
Bright bases this remark on questions of style, seeing great similarity
to Deuteronomic prose, but also marked differences. He sees also
minimal contact with Deutero Isaiah and Ezekiel, and no evidence of
post Restoration historical allusion (p17, 22). Thus C would be within a
few decades of Jeremiah's death (Bright 1965:lxxxi). We have no
mention of a group of disciples similar to that of Isaiah, which would
have been concerned to preserve Jeremiah's words. Nevertheless
various people close to Jeremiah were in such a position, even if they
did not form a group as such. A similar statement could be made of
Micah, but at the time of Jeremiah his words were clearly wellknown
(Jr 26:18).