Does Prophecy Cause History? Jeremiah 36: A Scroll Ablaze
In Jer 36, Jeremiah addresses a fundamental difficulty of prophecy raised by the climactic burning of his prophetic scroll by Jehoiakim on the eve of the Babylonian destruction of Judah. Would Jerusalem have been destroyed if Jehoiakim had not burnt the scroll prophesy-ing the destruction of Jerusal...
| Published in: | Old Testament essays |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2017]
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Old Testament essays
Year: 2017, Volume: 30, Issue: 3, Pages: 630-652 |
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Jojakim Judah, King
/ Exile
/ Prophecy
/ Semantics
/ Bible. Jeremia 36
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
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| Summary: | In Jer 36, Jeremiah addresses a fundamental difficulty of prophecy raised by the climactic burning of his prophetic scroll by Jehoiakim on the eve of the Babylonian destruction of Judah. Would Jerusalem have been destroyed if Jehoiakim had not burnt the scroll prophesy-ing the destruction of Jerusalem? Does the unrolling of metaphor determine history? Was it God's message of destruction presented in Jeremiah's prophecy that made Jehoiakim do it, condemning the king, the city and its people to destruction and exile? In this article, the implications of individual words are expanded to include Jere-miah, prophecy, history and God. Finally, it seems as if the prophecy and the event prophesied are caught up in the same inescapable loop of sequence and consequence. |
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| ISSN: | 2312-3621 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17159/2312-3621/2017/v30n3a6 HDL: 10520/EJC-da56d2c37 |