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 commu...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | English. |
| Imprint: | Minneapolis : Fortress Press, ©2011. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
| Summary: | "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"--Publisher description Kathleen O'Connor shows that the intense emotional language of Jeremiah documents a community's effort to restore their collapsed social world. Both prophet and book provide language to articulate disaster; move self-understanding from delusional security to identity as survivors; constitute individuals as moral agents; and characterize God as suffering trauma along with the people. |
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| Item Description: | Print version record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 179 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-169) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781451412291 1451412290 |