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February 27, 2013
Jeremiah Still SpeaksKedric Webster
The centrality of the prophet's speech as God's speech remains even when that speech is cast in the form of a book. Both rhetorical criticism and speech-act theory allow for the extension of the spoken word into writing as communicative event. We saw how the book of Jeremiah contains its own reflection on the process from utterance to text in Jeremiah 36. This means that the book itself favors a model that reckons with the poles of actual speech of the prophet and the book itself as communicative event.
The force of the word is neither ...
February 22, 2013
Therefore, choose lifeKedric Webster
Here is the message of Deuteronomy in a nutshell, culminating in the statement, "For Yahweh is your life, and he will extend your days in the land he swore to give to your forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob" (my translation).
The life or death choice of Deuteronomy is, in essense, a choice between trusting Yahweh or rejecting him. To choose life means accepting the Mosaic account of God's actions in the past, recognizing the wisdom of his prescriptions for life in the present, and, above all, putting faith in the solution promised in ...
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