*Uses both a narratological and historical-critical method to read these specific passages of Jeremiah*Demonstrates that the story of Jeremiah and Zedekiah is not the typical god prophet/bad king story found in much of prophetic literature and the Deuteronomic History*Provides an intertextual reading of the passages which connects Jeremiah to other figures in the Old TestamentThe book offers a narratological and intertextual reading of Jeremiah 37:1-40:6, a text that features the dynamic interaction between the prophet Jeremiah and King Zedekiah in the context of events surrounding the fall of