Abstract
This chapter defends the thesis that an important historical force in the composition of the Hebrew Bible has been widely disregarded by critical Old Testament research in its failure to deal adequately with the process and canonization effect. The term refers to that historical process within ancient Israel, particularly in the post-exilic period, which entailed a collecting, selecting, and ordering of texts to serve a normative function as Sacred Scripture within the continuing religious community. It is now time to turn from these methodological considerations to the biblical text itself in order to describe the exegetical significance of canon for the interpretation of the Old Testament. The canonical shaping of the Book of Jeremiah accepted the Deuteronomic framework as an authentic interpretation of Jeremiah's message which it used to bracket the earlier poetic material. This chapter outlines only few of some important theological implications to be drawn. Keywords: biblical text; canon; exegetical significance; Hebrew bible; Jeremiah book; Old Testament
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