Hello, I have been reading the major prophets again recently and have found the rhetoric a bit difficult to wrap my head around. One issue is the use of repetition, particularly in Jeremiah. The repetition is more in content and structure than in particular wordings so it doesn’t seem to be oriented towards rote memorization. It is more that this “Jeremiad” structure appears again and again sometimes to discuss the same events, but always to discuss very similar ones which are not always explicitly given in the text. My question is why it is used so much. What is gained by 52 chapters of this? If it was compiled from different sources in the same tradition, why? How would the compiler(s) have wanted it to be used?
u/Jazzlike_Mango7218 — 14 days ago