Acknowledgements
Like the book of Jeremiah, an academic book—though attributed to one author—is the product of the toil and sweat of a community of scholars and companions. The completion of my book would not have been possible save the guidance, encouragement, correction, and labor of my dissertation directors Professor James VanderKam and Professor Eugene Ulrich, as well as my readers Professor Avi Winitzer and Professor Ronnie Goldstein. The revisions suggested by Professor Christl Maier among other reviewers vastly improved my writing and argument. Significant encouragement and assistance came from friends Michael Cover, Chris Stroup, Jeremiah Coogan, David DeJong, Brandon Bruning, and Sharls White. I am grateful, as well, for my many academic mentors who have helped me along the way, especially Professor Bill Yarchin at Azusa Pacific, who first introduced me to the puzzle of Jeremiah’s two forms; Professors Carolyn Sharp, Robert Wilson, John Collins and Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal at Yale Divinity School; and Notre Dame Professors Blake Leyerle and the late Gary Knoppers. Finally, I also owe a debt of gratitude to my family—especially Heather, Eliyah, Julianna, and Thaddeus—who weathered with joy and patience many nights and days with a fretful and crotchety researcher, to my many friends and colleagues around Holy Cross College, Notre Dame, Valparaiso, San Pedro, and at Tree of Life, and to the mercies of Jeremiah’s God.