Jeremiah: Pain and Promise
- ISBN-10
- 0800699300
- ISBN-13
- 9780800699307
- Series
- Jeremiah
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 179
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Augsburg Fortress Publishing
- Author
- Kathleen M. O'Connor
Description
The author shows that although Jeremiah's emotionally wrought language can aggravate readers' memories of pain. The book also documents the ways an ancient community - and the prophet personally - sought to restore their collapsed social world.
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