Tuesday, October 31, 2017

And you thought you had it bad!

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Chapters 11–20 witness to the highly demanding role of the prophet. A series of accounts reveal Jeremiah’s tormented life of prayer in vivid...
Monday, October 30, 2017

Food for thought

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On the one hand, it looks very much as if under the current circumstances prayers will have no effect on God. Even Jeremiah’s intercession w...
Sunday, October 29, 2017

Just for (Hebrew) fun

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I'm working on a first-year Hebrew grammar right now and ran across this little gem in the chapter on geminates: note the second perso...
Friday, October 27, 2017

No cheap grace here

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Jeremiah acknowledges in prayer the necessity of divine discipline but he also pleads for leniency. Calvin draws attention to a general trut...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Powerless? Not totally...

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Jeremiah’s intercessory prayer comes at the end of a polemic juxtaposition between the gods and idols of the nations and the incomparability...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

So where does that put us?

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[P]rayer, even the intercession of a godly person, is intrinsically linked to the moral and spiritual standing of the third party that stand...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Poor Jeremiah

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The Hebrew conjunction weʾattâ (“as for you”) marks a sudden shift of addressee away from the “temple audience” that is under judgment to t...
Monday, October 23, 2017

Intercession and sin

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[I]ntercession, alongside speaking on behalf of the Lord are the primary responsibilities of the prophet. Jeremiah knew well that intercessi...
Friday, October 20, 2017

Why?

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Jeremiah’s intimate prayer dialogues were not canonized merely in order to preserve the prophet’s personal prayer life. If Jeremiah’s prayer...

Thought for the day

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23 The Lord’s word came to me: 24 Human one, say to her, You are an unclean land without rain on the day of reckoning. 25 The conspiracy of ...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

Sustenance

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Announcing the forthcoming destruction of temple and city and criticizing the religious leaders, one does not make oneself popular (Jer 7:1–...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Jeremiah's calling

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The prophet [Jeremiah] was commissioned “to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.” Correspondingly, we shall see that Jeremiah’s int...

Eisenbrauns to Continue Under Penn State University Press

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The news of the week:
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

What does it take?

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Intercessory prayer in itself may not have atoning value (cf. Jer 15:1), if, however, the prayer is a reflection of God’s will and intention...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22 in tandem

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From a canonical perspective, both Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53 provide important hermeneutical keys for the church to understand the suffering, d...

Bury the term!

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Scot McKnight has a good posting on the use of the word Evangelical . Here's the concluding paragraph, but you really should read the wh...
Friday, October 13, 2017

What happened?

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Isaiah 53 does not only testify to the prophet’s suffering, but it also provides the reason as to why God restores the covenant relationship...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

What is an intercessor?

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Intercession according to Isaiah 53, is nothing less than the surrender of one’s own right to life in favor of God’s will. The servant accep...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Active prayer

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[V]erbal intercessory prayer and intercession in the sense of vicarious suffering and death are not exclusive categories but rather they are...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Delaying the inevitable

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In sum, Israel’s pardon, reconciliation with their covenant God, and restoration to the land are always dependent on a fundamental “turning”...