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Walter Brueggemann · 2007
A scholarly theological analysis of the Book of Jeremiah that explores the various interpretive voices and theological themes across generations, examining how the text addresses God's sovereignty, judgment, and promise in the context of Babylon's expansion and Jerusalem's destruction, with contemporary relevance to modern crises.
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What this book knows
Jeremiah's God is radically free — judging, lamenting, and restoring in ways that defy every political and religious domestication.
faith-and-doubt
Unlike idols who can be 'nailed down as patrons,' this is a free God not bound to Israel in any ultimate way, acting freely, even devastatingly.
TBJ-RC-054The theme of hope, 'the conviction of things not seen,' is an act of buoyant imagination beyond historical evidence, relying exclusively on Yhwh's enduring purpose.
TBJ-RC-041trauma-and-survival
The imagery, anticipatory of the vivid scenes of Auschwitz, is of corpses piled high, the outcome of terror unleashed against a recalcitrant city.
TBJ-RC-098To 'restore the fortunes' looks to the inexplicable power of Yhwh to create newness — turning exile into homecoming, scatter into gather, death to life.
TBJ-RC-122The culpability argument is in the first instance not a theological point but a survivor's technique, a way of making sense out of lived nonsense.
TBJ-RC-189obedience-and-authority
The conviction that Yhwh would endlessly protect Jerusalem became a trusted truism — a 'cheap grace' making Yhwh an undemanding patron of the city.
TBJ-RC-0736 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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