The oracle of deliverance for Ebed-Melech, the cushite: an exegetical-theological study of Jer 38,1-13 and 39,15-18
Analepsis, Historical-critical, Rhetoric and narrative; Oracle, Sword, Famine and pestilence; Compassion, Ubuntu, Obedience, Trust and deliverance; Cistern, Gate, Courtyard and king’s palace; Disobedience, Judgment and exile.
| Summary: | Analepsis, Historical-critical, Rhetoric and narrative; Oracle, Sword, Famine and pestilence; Compassion, Ubuntu, Obedience, Trust and deliverance; Cistern, Gate, Courtyard and king’s palace; Disobedience, Judgment and exile. This book examines the oracle of deliverance that Yhwh communicated to Ebed-melech, the Cushite (Jer 39,15-18). In order to comprehend this analeptically presented promise, however, the research also scrutinizes two other related events in Jeremiah’s mission in the context of Jer 37–39: i) the unpleasant incident in which the Jerusalem officials maliciously threw the Lord’s messenger into the muddy cistern (Jer 38,1–6) and ii) Ebed-melech’s benevolent intervention to rescue the prophet from the water reservoir (Jer 38,7-13). In this monograph, the author uses the historical-critical method and rhetorical & narrative analyses |
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| ISBN: | 3631833644 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3726/b17494 |