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Exegesis of the Prophet Jeremiah
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Module 4 Assignment Details;
Exegete The Profit Jeremiah in an essay of 1,250 words in which you do the following:
1) Establish the historical context of the text, and describe the extent to which Jeremiahs prophecy is oriented toward events contemporary with the historical context.
2) Determine and describe the poetic devices of the text.
3) Establish whether the prophecy is conditional or unconditional.
4) Explain how the selection of prophetic text relates to the terms of the Covenant.

Exegesis of the Prophet Jeremiah

Introduction
Historical Context and the Extent to which the Prophecy is Oriented As realtors will say, the key to success is location, location, location. The same applies in hermeneutics. However, when talking about texts and not real estate, the proper phrase is context, context, context. The location of the text, historically, canonically, and culturally, determines how to interpret a text. This is being reiterated because nowhere in biblical literature is context more important than in the prophetic literature. Despite the span of time that the biblical prophets cover collectively, the active role of the prophets can be appropriately described in clusters. These clusters revolve around two things: political instability and covenant defection. The first cluster involves Moses and Aaron and the beginning of Israel as a nation proper. The second cluster involves most of the so-called nonwriting prophets, Samuel, Elijah, and Elisha. However, these first two are pale in comparison to the final two clusters of prophets, numerically speaking. The first centers on the religious and political crisis of the Assyrian conflict of the 8th century B.C. The second centers on the Babylonian religious and political crisis of the 7th and 6th centuries B.C. In order to properly interpret the prophetic voice for today, it is



References: Balentine, S. E. 1981. Jeremiah, Prophet of Prayer. Review and Expositor,78(3). Retrieved from Broyles, C. 2001. Interpreting the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. ISBN-13: 978080102271 Brueggemann, W. 2002. Mediation upon the Abyss: The Book of Jeremiah.Word and World, 22(4), 340-350. Retrieved from Christensen, D. L. 1990. In quest of the autograph of the book of Jeremiah: a study of Jeremiah 25 in relation to Jeremiah 46-51. JETS, 33, 145-153. Retrieved from Joubert, C. 2012. Understanding the nature of Scripture, of Jesus, and the “disease” of theistic evolutionists (BioLogos). Answers Research Journal, 5, 59-71. Retrieved from Joyce, P. M. 2010. The Prophets AND Psychological Interpretation. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 133. Retrieved from McConville, J. G. 1991. Jeremiah: Prophet and Book. Tyndale Bulletin, 42, 80-95. Retrieved from Smith, G. A. 1923. Jeremiah. Genesis, 49(27), 27. Retrieved from

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