Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
Angaben zur Quelle:
47,4 (2023) 431-454
Keywords:
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Laments in the Bible
;
Prophecy Biblical teaching
Abstract:
In his laments, the prophet Jeremiah moves beyond the typical prophetic role of spokesperson. Rather than mediating a divine message, the prophet speaks to the deity from his own suffering. Scholars tend to see Jeremiah’s laments as presenting either a radically interior form of religion or a kind of community protest in which the “I” of the lament is a metonymy for the “we” of the nation. This paper will instead locate Jeremiah’s laments within a discourse on the effective nature of prophetic utterance. Understood in this manner, these laments portray the prophet as praying effectively for the destruction of Judah.
DOI:
10.1177/03090892231168664
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