Jeremiah: A Study in Ancient Hebrew Rhetoric

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Eisenbrauns, Jan 1, 1997 - Religion - 212 pages

Completely retypeset including a new chapter on the history of rhetorical criticism in North America and a fully updated bibliography, Jack Lundbom's landmark contribution to rhetorical criticism is here reissued by Eisenbrauns. This book serves a dual purpose as both an introduction to Jeremiah and an introduction (with illustration) to rhetorical criticism of the Hebrew Bible.

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Chapter 1
1
Chapter 2
36
Chapter 3
82
Chapter 4
147
Appendix
155
Bibliography
165
Indexes
203
Back Cover
213
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Page xvi - JANESCU Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society JBL Journal of Biblical Literature JCS Journal of Cuneiform Studies...
Page 2 - What I am interested in, above all, is in understanding the nature of Hebrew literary composition, in exhibiting the structural patterns that are employed for the fashioning of a literary unit, whether in poetry or prose, and in discerning the many and various devices by which the predications are formulated and ordered into a unified whole.
Page xxii - It is not concerned with permanence, nor yet with beauty. It is concerned with effect. It regards a speech as a communication to a specific audience, and holds its business to be the analysis and appreciation of the orator's method of imparting his ideas to his hearers.
Page 107 - To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach ; they have no delight in it.
Page xvi - Studies JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies JNSL Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages...
Page 119 - I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran : I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
Page 95 - And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination. 8 The priests did not say, 'Where is the LORD?
Page 107 - Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
Page 78 - I spoke to you in your prosperity, But you said, "I will not hear." This has been your manner from your youth, That you did not obey My voice.

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