RELIGST 2EE3 Lecture : Jeremiah lecture part 2 - October 25th 2013
7 Nov 2013
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The call narration is authentic to him very personal god called him and knew him from the womb". There is a parallel between jeremiah and moses. Jeremiah dies in egypt and doesn"t end up in babylon with the exiles; moses comes out of egypt and dies in the wilderness and does not make it into the. Amos and jeremiah have visions were god asks them what they see. Jeremiah and the almond tree vision ambiguity because don"t know if god is watching over the people for their good or for their bad. There is a progression in how these visions are developing from amos to daniel. Second jeremiah vision boiling pot coming out from the north babylon takes over assyria and marches down from the north to take judah. There are mainly oracles of judgement in jeremiah. Image of the unfaithful bride (judah and idolatry), same kind of marriage image like in hosea. (chapters 2-3: image of cistern (chapter 2)
