04_Reasoner_388-404 28/10/14 10:43 Pagina 401 THE REDEMPTIVE INVERSIONS OF JEREMIAH IN ROMANS 9–11 401 Koch’s explanation for why Paul does not quote from Jeremiah arises from his sense of the very limited role that Jeremiah played in the Judaism contemporary to Paul, an explanation that is ques- tionable in view of the paucity of evidence we have for pre-70 first- century Judaism and the ample citations of Jeremiah that Koch ad- mits in the rest of the NT 41. The letters of Romans and 1 Corinthi- ans wrestle with Jeremiah even without quoting him. IV. The Lone Quote of Jeremiah in Romans 9–11 But there is one quotation from Jeremiah in Romans 9–11. At Romans 11,27 we see an example of what Fishbane and Sommer call “reprediction”, where a prophetic prediction is announced again. Here Paul quotes LXX Jer 38,33a (MT 31,33a) — au[th h` diaqh,kh (“This is the covenant”). With o[tan avfe,lwmai ta.j a`marti,aj auvtw/n (“when I will forgive their sins”), Paul is clearly quoting Isa 27,9 (o[tan avfe,lwmai auvtou/ th.n a`marti,an), but it is worth noting that the forgiveness of sins is at the end of Jeremiah’s list of promises following the phrase “This is the covenant” that Paul quotes (see LXX Jer 38,34d — kai. tw/n a`martiw/n auvtw/n ouv mh. mnhsqw/ e;ti). While not all scholars of the Jewish scriptures are as ready to find “reprediction” as Fishbane and Sommer are, in light of the Hosea quotations in Rom 9,25-29 it appears that Paul can quote from the prophets in order to import a prediction into his own generation. Sommer notes how Deutero-Isaiah draws on chap- ters 30–33 of Jeremiah as the “richest mine” of Jeremiah’s texts that he uses positively in reprediction 42. Sommer shows how texts like Isa 42,5-9 and Isa 54,10 recall the language of MT Jer 31,31- 36. While Deutero-Isaiah minimizes or ignores some extreme as- pects of Jeremiah’s new covenant language, he still seeks to show that his prophecies fit the general program of this section of Jere- miah 43. We have already observed that in Romans 9–11 there are 41 “Doch entspricht ihre Nichtbeachtung bei Paulus der offenbar recht geringen Rolle, die sie im zeitgenössischen Judentum gespielt haben” (KOCH, Die Schrift als Zeuge, 46; citations of Jeremiah in NT and early Christian lit- erature, ibid. n. 11). 42 SOMMER, A Prophet Reads Scripture, 46. 43 SOMMER, A Prophet Reads Scripture, 46-50.