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Whether dealing with collective catastrophe or intimate trauma, recovering from emotional and physical hurt is hard. Kathleen O’Connor shows that although Jeremiah’s emotionally wrought language can aggravate readers’ memories of pain, it also documents the ways an ancient community—and the prophet personally—sought to restore their collapsed social world. Both prophet and book provide a...

JEREMIAH 11:18–12:6; 15:10–21; 17:14–18; 18:18–23; 20:7–13, 14–18 Jeremiah’s prayers, often called “confessions” (11:18–12:6; 15:10–21; 17:14–18; 18:18–23; 20:7–13, 14–181) are an important component of his “biography” and the reason I was attracted to the study of Jeremiah in the first place. A unique feature of prophetic literature, the prayers provide him with a rich spiritual and psychological life and distinguish him from other prophets.2 They offer vivid
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