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A Mouth Full of Fire: The Word of God in the Words of Jeremiah is unavailable, but you can change that!

“I am putting my words as a fire in your mouth; these people are tinder and it will consume them” (Jeremiah 5:14). In the book of Jeremiah, not only is the vocabulary of “word” and “words” uniquely prevalent, but formulae marking divine speech also play an unprecedented role in giving the book’s final form its narrative and theological shape. Indeed, “the word of the Lord” is arguably the main...

At the end of each ‘word’ chapter I shall gather together some theological reflections to serve as building blocks for a Jeremianic theology of the word of God. The four reflections that follow can be no more than tentative at this stage; in subsequent chapters I shall aim to reinforce and extend them. 1. The word of God is the subject of the book of Jeremiah, addressing us just as it once addressed him. In the opening two verses of Jeremiah the book presents itself
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