Insiders and Outsiders in the Book of Jeremiah: Shifts in Symbolic Arrangements
This paper examines the 'insider-outsider' Weltanschauung in the social matrix of the book of Jeremiah as a way to account for its primary literary symbols. Following a brief introduction, the essay examines several code words for danger in Jeremiah in order to identify whom the text stigm...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
1995
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Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 1995, Volume: 20, Issue: 66, Pages: 65-85 |
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| Summary: | This paper examines the 'insider-outsider' Weltanschauung in the social matrix of the book of Jeremiah as a way to account for its primary literary symbols. Following a brief introduction, the essay examines several code words for danger in Jeremiah in order to identify whom the text stigmatizes with labels of 'outsider' and privileges as 'insider'. These categories are employed next as indices of major shifts and transformations in symbolic and social arrangements of the book. In the final analysis the paper attempts to show that the literary world of Jeremiah is witness to two disparate networks of meaning, each attempting to come to grips with counter- coherence during a season of liminality. As a result of the experience of dissonance, symbol systems in the book of Jeremiah are in process of restructuring, and long standing distinctions between 'us' and 'them' are blurred and reconceptualized. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-6728 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/030908929502006604 |