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Article: Provocation and Punishment: The Anger of God in the Book of Jeremiah and Deuteronomistic Theology
- Article from:
- The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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SAMANTHA JOO, Provocation and Punishment: The Anger of God in the Book of Jeremiah and Deuteronomistic Theology (BZAW 361; Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2006). Pp. xiv + 320. euro82.24.
This volume is a revision of Joo's Ph.D. dissertation, completed at Brandeis University in 2003. J. asserts that the purpose of the authors of the Book of Jeremiah was to justify God to agitated Judahite communities who had experienced siege, violence, and exile from their homeland even though they were in a covenantal relationship with Yhwh. These theologians declared that God was punishing the people because they had "provoked him to anger" by their sins, an explanation that directs the responsibility for ...