Playing favourites: Israel and Judah in the marriage metaphor of Jeremiah 3

dc.contributor.authorCrouch, Carly Lorraine
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-08T04:29:29Z
dc.date.available2021-09-08T04:29:29Z
dc.date.issued2020-06
dc.description.abstractThe depiction of Yhwh’s marriage to Rebellious Israel and Treacherous Judah in Jeremiah 3 has resisted interpretation in terms that cohere with the text’s surroundings or our wider historical and theological understanding of the entities named by the text. Though commentators consistently identify the sisters as the northern and southern kingdoms, they are obliged to engage in interpretive gymnastics to explain the text’s preference for Israel, the northern kingdom. This article examines recent interpretations and their underlying assumptions, then reviews immediate and wider evidence for the entities called Israel and Judah, en route to a new proposal for their identification and significance in this passage. It proposes that the apparent incoherence of the allegory and its relationship with the surrounding material may be resolved by the recognition that Israel is meant to signify the community exiled to Babylonia, while Judah represents those left behind in the land.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentOld Testament Studiesen_ZA
dc.description.librarianhj2021en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/home/joten_ZA
dc.identifier.citationCrouch CL. Playing favourites: Israel and Judah in the marriage metaphor of Jeremiah 3. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. 2020;44(4):594-609. doi:10.1177/0309089219862805.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0309-0892 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1476-6728 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1177/0309089219862805
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/81709
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherSageen_ZA
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2020en_ZA
dc.subjectExilic theologyen_ZA
dc.subjectIsraelen_ZA
dc.subjectJeremiahen_ZA
dc.subjectJudahen_ZA
dc.subjectMarriage metaphoren_ZA
dc.subjectPro-golah theologyen_ZA
dc.titlePlaying favourites: Israel and Judah in the marriage metaphor of Jeremiah 3en_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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