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A 6 page essay that draws heavily on Walter Brueggeman's book A Commentary on Jeremiah. The writer specifically discusses the sermon temple, using Jeremiah chapters 7 and 26. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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to 609 BCE, which is early in the reign of Jehoakim; however, there is also the opinion that the Book of Jeremiah is "heavily redacted," that is, edited to reflect
the theology of the "exilic period" (Brueggemann 77). In both cases, scholars are in agreement that the scripture illuminates the readers understand of the "tradition of Jeremiah," which encompasses understanding
its "social context, tensions, and possibilities" (Brueggemann 77). The following examination of Jeremiah focuses on the temple sermon, which is represented in both Jeremiah 7 and Jeremiah 26 and what
these passages reveal about the Jeremiah tradition, its cultural context and theology. The official ideology of the Temple during the time of Jeremiah was that the promises made by
God to Israel were unconditional, and this condition "limited Gods judgment in response to Israels action" (Brueggemann 78). In the temple sermon, Jeremiah directly attacks this position, arguing that this
hypocrisy carried to an extreme and insisting that Gods path for the Hebrews is founded on the principle of obedience to Gods will (Brueggemann 78). Verses 7:1-15 present the "core
of the proclamation" that Jeremiah is commended by God to present in the temple, but it is unclear in the passage as to whether or not his speech was in
conjunction with a specific religious festival (Brueggemann 78). Jeremiah is not rejecting the entirety of traditional liturgy, as his criticism applies only to those parts of ritual that he
judges to be false. His implied point, which is later stated explicitly, is that the nation must mend its ways or Gods gift, i.e., the land, will be taken from
them and they will be subjected to exile (Brueggemann 78). In other words, "Land is not an unconditional gift, but is premised on torah obedience" (Brueggemann 78). It cannot be
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