Jeremiah: Preacher of Grace, Poet of TruthLiturgical Press, 2007 - 124 стор. What does it mean to be deeply in love with God and, at the same time, with a person, a group, or a nation that is at odds with God? Such is the dilemma of the prophet Jeremiah, and it is an experience not unfamiliar to many in our own day. The lesson of Jeremiah's story is that, no matter how unfaithful humans may be, God remains always faithful, always ready to forgive and to right the wrongs humans have wrought. Using the tools of rhetorical and narrative criticism, Carol Dempsey develops the character Jeremiah as a literary figure, a messenger not only to his own people but to all readers of his book. In keeping with the purposes of the Interfaces series, she helps us sharpen our critical skills by examining the text's presentation of a biblical character not in isolation but interacting, interfacing, with others in his milieu and, implicitly, in ours. Jeremiah is both prophet and poet, as Dempsey shows. She examines the prophet as both gifted and burdened by his mission and the word given to him, a word personal to himself and repugnant to his audience. Ultimately, it is Jeremiah's relationship with God, in its depth and its tension, that shapes his character 'and that of his audience as well. In the end, Jeremiah's struggles move him from pathos to trust, from imprisonment to freedom, from desperation to conviction, leaving him and his readers with a sense of wonder at the mystery of God. |
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... religious situation of his day ; and to ( b ) present Jeremiah as a gifted and skilled preacher whose rhetoric is ... religious experience , and how imaginative religious experience finds its way into Jeremiah's proclamations that become ...
... religious turbulence . Two of the great world powers and archrivals were Assyria and Babylon , with Assyria being the stronger of the two during the earlier part of the period . Assyria ruled by terror , and one of its major ...
... religious stipulations were costly , but the kingdom's submission to Tiglath - pileser at these early stages of Assyria's rise to power perhaps safeguarded Judah against what Israel would eventually experience - invasion by the ...
... religious infidelities that involved the worship of other gods and forgetfulness of Yhwh and Yhwh's covenant . There were also countless violations of Torah , especially worship of the Canaanite fertility god Baal alongside Yhwh ( see 2 ...
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CHAPTER | 1 |
CHAPTER | 28 |
CHAPTER THREE | 38 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 54 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 62 |
CHAPTER | 76 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 87 |