By Samantha Joo
This ebook examines the matter of theodicy coming up from the autumn of Jerusalem (587 B.C.E.) within the e-book of Jeremiah. It explores the ways that the authors of the booklet of Jeremiah attempted to give an explanation for away their God's accountability whereas clinging to the assumption of divine mastery over human affairs. with the intention to hint the improvement of a specific book's realizing of God's position in dispensing punishments, this e-book analyzes the entire passages containing the pivotal be aware הכעיס ("to galvanize to anger") in Deuteronomistic background and the publication of Jeremiah.
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16) with other deities (D ,- ITH, "with foreign gods;" ΓΏ17"ΙΓΠ, "with abominations," v. 16) and sacrificed to them ( t T l t o , " d e m o n s w h o are not gods; " π'ρκ k V ' gods they had not known," v. 17a). It is within the context of clarifying the apostasy, where CTUDi! first appears in the Song. The perfectly chiastic, parallel bicolon introduces the Israelites' idolatry: T h e y stirred h i m to j e a l o u s y with foreign gods; With abominations they p r o v o k e d h i m to anger. 51 52 A Β ΒΆ' CITJ "ΙΠΧϋρ'1 "ΠΟ^ΙΟ'1 Π31ΪΊΠ3 Since the hiphil of HDD does not make sense, BDB, 705 and BHS note vocalize the verbal form to a qal of ('gather') which may reflect the Greek and Vulgate.
These DVD-deeds are evil, therefore angering enough, to prompt God to destroy. 2. Non-Hiphil Verbal Conjugations Before a detailed analysis of the pericopes containing the hiphil conjugations of DUD, we will briefly discuss the qal and piel conjugations of the root. When the verb is conjugated in the qal, the subject is usually human (Eccl 5:16,14 Ps 112:10, Neh 3:33, 2 Chr 16:10); it appears only once with God as the subject (Ezek 16:42). Among the qal attestations with human-subjects, DVD can be both internalized (Eccl 5:16) and externalized (Ps 112:10, Neh 3:33, 2 Chr 16:10), whereas the only occurrence with God as the subject (Ezek 16:42) refers to the externalized manifestation of the provocation: my oyDK "nupuft -ρα 15, ns>op m o i ρ τιαπ Timm I will rest m y a n g e r against y o u a n d m y j e a l o u s y will d e p a r t f r o m y o u .
16) occurs in the indictment ( w . 15-18) while the other (v. 21) appears in the judgment section of the Song ( w . 19-25), both of which are then connected by the nominal form of the root, DUD, in v. 19: Catalog of Sins (vv. 15-18): Rejection of God r r t w rP3J? n m t f n x u m i Vnn f n ^ into ριζ^ι (15 uto^ Worship of Other Deities — Provocation (Hiphil) i n C P J · ' ΓαϊΠΓα Ο Ί Ό inK^ (16 A d d i t i o n a l D e s c r i p t i o n of I d o l a t r y Ο ΐ υ τ Κ1? • , n 1 7X Π^Ν K1? •Ήώ 1 ? Ίπητ- (17 47 As partially outlined by Herbert Huffmon, "The Covenant Lawsuit in the Prophets," JBL 78 (1959) 289.