Jeremiah: Pain and Promise

Whether dealing with collective catastrophe or intimate trauma, recovering from emotional and physical hurt is hard. Kathleen O'Connor shows that although Jeremiah's emotionally wrought language can aggravate readers' memories of pain, it also documents the ways an ancient community-and the prophet personally-sought to restore their collapsed social world. Both prophet and book provide a traumatized community language to articulate disaster; move self-understanding from delusional security to identity as survivors; constitute individuals as responsible moral agents; portray God as equally afflicted by disaster; and invite a reconstruction of reality.

Author: Kathleen M. O'Connor
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 07/01/2012
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d
ISBN13: 9780800699307
ISBN10: 0800699300
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Biblical Commentary | Old Testament | General
- Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation | Old Testament
- Religion | Biblical Meditations | Old Testament

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