A Prophet To The Nations: Essays In Jeremiah Studies by.
Jeremiah’s life and times. Jeremiah served as one of God’s prophets through the rule of five kings of Judah (Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin and Zedekiah). He even continued to plead God’s case against Judah during the time of Jerusalem’s destruction by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. (Jeremiah 1:3; 52:7-11).His prophetic ministry extended over a period of more than 40 years.
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The book of Jeremiah takes pains to depict Jeremiah as a legitimate prophet of the Israelite god, Yahweh. In Jeremiah’s time, Judah was a nation divided over foreign policy and religion, and prophets with opposing messages claimed to speak for Yahweh ().According to the book of Jeremiah (our only source of information about him), it was Jeremiah’s determination to preach the word of Yahweh.
What It Doesn’t Mean to be a Prophet to the Nations. But to say that Jeremiah is a prophet to the nations doesn’t mean two things. First, it doesn’t mean that other prophets were not made to be prophets to the nations. Isaiah has much to say about the nations. Some of the minor prophets have quite a bit to say about the nations, too. And.
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles; against. Jeremiah 1:10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
The God attested in the Book of Jeremiah invites its readers into and through any and all such dislocations to new futures that combine divine agency and human inventiveness rooted in faithfulness.
Jeremiah was called by God to be his prophet to Judah and to the nations in the mist of Judah’s political convulsions: - (687-642), the political dependence of the Assyria brought on an resurgence of idolatry in the form of a syncretist fusion of the Mesopotamian astral gods and the Canaamite fertility deities.
As a guardian of the covenant, prophet Isaiah used the poetry technique to pass God’s message of the coming of savior, son of God (Jesus), and his intent to the nations. The books of Hebrews, Psalms, and Job, also possess part of poetic literature used by prophets to communicate God’s message, with poetic alliterations and assonances articulated in many prophetic ways.
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Background and Setting: While some people are called into God’s service as children (1 Sam chapter 3), Jeremiah was commissioned as a “prophet to the nations” even before he was conceived (1:5). Jeremiah’s 40 year ministry was centered in Judah, the region of the tribes of Benjamin and Judah, surrounding Jerusalem.
The divergence between the MT and the LXX texts of Jeremiah can be explained in terms of omissions, additions, verse and chapter 1 T. R. Hobbs, “Some Remarks on the Composition and Structure of the Book of Jeremiah,” in A Prophet to the Nations: Essays in Jeremiah Studies (ed. L. G. Perdue and B. W. Kovacs; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1984), 175.
I. Jeremiah—A Prophet To The Nations (Ch. 1) The introductory statement ( 1:1-3 ) establishes Jeremiah as a historical person and his book as a theological document. See other commentaries for detailed descriptions of the historical, geographical, and cultural setting of the book.
Judaism considers the Book of Jeremiah part of its canon, and regards Jeremiah as the second of the major prophets. Christianity also regards Jeremiah as a prophet and he is quoted in the New Testament. Islam too considers Jeremiah a prophet, and he is listed as a major prophet in Ibn Kathir 's Qisas Al-Anbiya.
Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel share much in common. They address the pivotal times and topics associated with the last stages of the monarchical history of Israel, and with the development of new forms of communal and religious life through exile and beyond. One important structural component of all three books is a substantial section which concerns itself with a range of foreign nations.
The essays in this volume, originating mainly in several Society of Biblical Literature groups, examine the major prophets’ oracles concerning the nations. The volume emphasizes the diversity of this material, but the editors assume that the reader will see its thematic continuity across the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel (p. xiv). In the foreword, Marvin A. Sweeney surveys recent.
Jeremiah, Hebrew Yirmeyahu, Latin Vulgate Jeremias, (born probably after 650 bce, Anathoth, Judah—died c. 570 bce, Egypt), Hebrew prophet, reformer, and author of a biblical book that bears his name.He was closely involved in the political and religious events of a crucial era in the history of the ancient Near East; his spiritual leadership helped his fellow countrymen survive disasters.
Another Dodecade: A Dialectic Model of the Decentred Universe of Jeremiah Studies 1996—2008. Claire E. Carroll. Currents in Research 2009 8: 2, 162-182 Download Citation. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click on download. Format: Tips on.