Setting the stage for the future of the kingship : an ideological-critical reading of Jeremiah 21:1-10
The argument of this article is that Jeremiah 21:1-10 was deliberately placed in its current position to set the stage for the denouncement of the kingship of Judah. This is particularly clear in the subsection 21:3-7. There is no future for the kingship of Judah. This is, however, followed in 21:8-...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2004
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Old Testament essays
Year: 2004, Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 470-483 |
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| Summary: | The argument of this article is that Jeremiah 21:1-10 was deliberately placed in its current position to set the stage for the denouncement of the kingship of Judah. This is particularly clear in the subsection 21:3-7. There is no future for the kingship of Judah. This is, however, followed in 21:8-10 with a glimmer of hope to the people of Jerusalem of possible survival. The survival for the people, however, is not dependent on the kings anymore, but on their surrendering to the Babylonians. This links up with the final section in 23:1-8 which makes it clear that there is a future for the people of Judah, but under a new leadership that Yahweh will put in place. Jeremiah 21:1-10 reflects an underlying ideology in regard to the kingship of Judah, but also about a way the future can be realised for the people of Judah. If this is true, 21:1:10 is aptly setting the stage for Zedekiah and his contemporaries for the crude reality of the future of the kingship, but also the glimmer of hope to the people of Judah. |
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| ISSN: | 2312-3621 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/EJC85637 |