04_Reasoner_388-404 28/10/14 10:43 Pagina 402 402 MARK REASONER some “reversals” or redemptive inversions from the first third of the book of Jeremiah that are similar to some “reversals” found in Deutero-Isaiah. Now in Romans 11,27 we see a reprediction of the new covenant in a way analogous to Deutero-Isaiah’s edited repre- dictions. The new covenant language of Jeremiah surfaces along- side a redeemer passage from Isaiah that is inverted to say that the redeemer comes out of Zion, a change that Sommer might call “his- torical recontextualization” and that Wagner calls “a fundamental interpretive shift” couching Isa 59,20 in a Diaspora perspective 44. All this is simply to offer evidence for my point that the text of Ro- mans 9–11 makes use of Jeremiah in ways very similar to how Deutero-Isaiah uses Jeremiah. Though there are no verbatim quo- tations of Jeremiah until Rom 11,27, these chapters in Romans re- configure the largely negative portrait of Israel in Jeremiah 1–20. The allusive, redemptive inversions give way to a positive repre- diction when Paul finally does quote from a more positive section of Jeremiah in Romans 11,27. In light of the quotation from LXX Jer 38,33a (MT Jer 31,33a) in Romans 11,27a one might be able to claim that the inversions of material from Jeremiah 1–20 are simply following the inversions Jeremiah himself offers in his hopeful scroll, centered on MT chap- ters 30–33 (LXX chapters 37–40), but actually comprising MT chapters 26–36 (LXX chapters 33–43) 45. This is a scroll of hopeful words that Jeremiah is told to write (MT Jer 30,1-3; LXX Jer 37,1-3). The reversal, the dissonance in intratextuality within Jeremiah, is due to God. Jeremiah is dismayed by the shift of YHWH’s will from definite judgment to a hopeful future (MT Jer 32,24-25; LXX Jer 39,24-25) 46. In personal correspondence, Holladay comments on this shift: “It is fascinating that in all this there is no trace of Jer- emiah’s saying ‘I misunderstood God in all those years in which I set forth his judgment,’ nor of accusing God of deceiving him with 44 SOMMER, A Prophet Reads Scripture, 52-54; WAGNER, Heralds of the Good News, 284. 45 This suggestion was made to me by T.D. Still on November 24, 2002. W.L. HOLLADAY guided me to follow this suggestion further in a letter of March 2, 2004. 46 HOLLADAY, Jeremiah 2, 22-23 (dates the hopeful scroll to 597 and suggests that Baruch wrote chapters 26 and 36 to bracket the scroll) 206-212, 220 (gives exegesis of sections of the hopeful scroll that contain the reversal that YHWH is showing towards the Judean people).