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This monograph is a literary study of the oracles against Babylon in Jeremiahchapters 5051. They form the climax of the foreign oracle collection in thebook of Jeremiah. Included are a survey of early scholarship on these chaptersa discussion of genres and motifs verbal components and a succinct survey ofthe historical context. However the major emphasis is directed to the dynamicof these oracles as a literary creation with a message. That message isdirected to Judah and Israel who are urged to flee a doomed city with itsidolatrous civilization and to return to their homeland to Jerusalem toenter a permanent covenant with YHWH the God of their fathers. Throughout theliterature is discussed in its natural contexts within the oracle collectionin Jeremiah in comparison with the Isaian oracles against Babylon and withinthe canonical book of Jeremiah demonstrating the climactic position of theseoracles. «
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