Circumscribing the prostitute : the rhetorics of intertexuality, metaphor, and gender in Jeremiah 3.1-4.4

Circumscribing the prostitute : the rhetorics of intertexuality, metaphor, and gender in Jeremiah 3.1-4.4 / Mary E. Shields.

In Jeremiah 3.1-4.4 the prophet employs the image of Israel as God's unfaithful wife, who acts like a prostitute. The entire passage is a rich and complex rhetorical tapestry designed to convince the people of Israel of the error of their political and religious ways, and their need to change b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shields, Mary E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : T & T Clark International, ©2004.
Series:Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 387.
Subjects:
Bible. > Jeremiah > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > Jeremiah.
Bible. > Jeremiah
RELIGION > Biblical Studies > Prophets.
Jeremia (bijbelboek)
Metaforen.
Sekseverschillen.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intertextuality as allusion : a first reading of Jeremiah 3.1-5
  • Gender construction and intertextuality of culture : second reading of Jeremiah 3.1-5
  • Jeremiah 3.6-11 : narrative interpretation of Jeremiah 3.1-5
  • Jeremiah 3.12-13: impossible made possible
  • Jeremiah 3.14-18 : model for the future
  • Jeremiah 3.19-20 : set among the sons-Israel as faithless daughter
  • Jeremiah 3.21-25 : liturgy of repentance
  • Jeremiah 4.1-4 : requirements for return
  • New sights from an old seer : rhetorical strategies and Jeremiah 3.1-4.4.

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