Reading as Re-reading: The Poetic Function of the Grammatical Ambiguity in Jer 51:20-24

• Authors: Popko Łukasz
• Languages of publication: PL EN FR DE IT

Abstracts

EN

The grammatical ambiguity of Jer 51:20-24 results in three possible inter-pretations: 1) Babylon as God’s weapon; 2) an announcement of Babylon’s demise; 3) God as the victorious ruler of the world history. The ambiguity should be considered as a poetic trope.

Keywords

EN

grammatical ambiguity; Jer 51:20-24; Babylon; hermeneutics

• Publisher: Faculty of Theology at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin / Wydawnictwo KUL, ul. Zbożowa 61, 20-827 Lublin, Poland
• Journal: Biblical Annals
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 8(65/2)
• Pages: 159-171

Dates

published

2018-06-10

Contributors

author

Popko Łukasz

• École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem

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Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31743/ba.2018.8.2.01