The Tears of God in the Book of Jeremiah

The article analyzes several passages in Jeremiah in which God weeps in order to understand the function of divine weeping in the book. Attention to the distribution of weeping in the book finds that God's weeping (8,23; 9,9.17; 13,17; 14,17) gives way to divine anger and refusal to hear the pe...

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Published in:Biblica 2013-01, Vol.94 (1), p.24-46
Main Author: Bosworth, David A.
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Commentationes
Deities
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Emotional distress
Exegesis and biblical criticism
History and sciences of religions
Laments
Old Testament
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Poetry
Prophets
Tears
Theology
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Laments
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Oracles
Overall studies
Poetry
Prophets
Tears
Theology
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