Reform and Fall

context

	Israel gone
	growth of Babylon (and Egypt)
	Deuteronomic reform and Josiah
	   before? during? Jeremiah's ministry
	   religion of land still maybe not quite
	      monotheistic (cf later Elephantine)

Josiah's reasons for reform

Jeremiah

Call and Mission: chapter 1

Controversy with other prophets
	Jeremiah supports submission to Babylon
	Hananiah  (28)
		cf Lachish 3-4 (ane 213 ; anet 322; dott 214-217)
	but, at assasination of Gedaliah, is
	   taken to Egypt

Temple Sermon
	7:1-34; 8:1-3; 26:1-24
	   no sacrifices (7:21-26)

confessions
	20:7-18
	17:14-18

in stocks and prison (under guard)
	20:1-6
	37:11-21

[destruction and despair]

hope for future

• plot of land 32:1-15
• new covenant 31:31-34

• Powerpoint slides on the additions to Jeremiah
• Lecture notes on Baruch
• Lecture notes on Letter of Jeremiah

Ezekiel

date: after first destruction 597

Call
	1:1-28; 3:1-15
		notice that also goes to Jerusalem 8:1-4
			several dual sites of ministry theories

strange activities
	jerusalem brick 4:1-8
	shaving head 5:1-4

message of destruction
what Jerusalem has been 16:1-43
  [cf samaria/jerusalem ch 23]
baggage 12:1-16
Noah, Danel, and Job
  14:12-23  (14,20)
    (righteous gentiles?
    note Ugaritic Danel ANE 118-122,131-132)

individualism?  18:1-4, 20-24, 29-32

hope after exile

1. provision of new boundaries etc (40-48)
2. battle against Gog of Magog (38-39)
3. valley of dry bones (37:1-14)