Robin Baker: Mesopotamian Civilization and the Origins of the New Testament, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Blurb

"In late seventh-century Jerusalem, as Judah found itself perched precariously between allegiance to Egypt and a looming threat from Babylon, Yahweh's people took solace in the conviction that Yahweh's city was inviolable. Solomon's temple was the visible guarantee of their God's presence and protection. Whatever happened, they would be safe. Jeremiah came to the temple to fulminate against this belief: "Do not trust in deceptive words, 'This is Yahweh's temple, Yahweh's temple, Yahweh's temple!'" (Jer 7: 4). In denouncing their confidence, Jeremiah uses the phrase hãekal YHWH "Yahweh's temple" three times. The repetition both caricatures an incantation and morbidly parodies the Trisagion of Isaiah's vision of Yahweh's hãekåal (Isa 6: 1-3), the prophet who promised that Jerusalem would remain inviolate against the last acute threat of obliteration the nation faced from Mesopotamia. The triadic pattern is pregnant for the context; so too is the word hãekåal in light of what follows in Jeremiah"--