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

• Authors: Łukasz Popko

Title variants

PL

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

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

The grammatical ambiguity of Jer 51:20-24 results in three possible interpretations: 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

PL

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

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: The Biblical Annals
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 159-171

Dates

published

2018-04-24

Contributors

author

Łukasz Popko

• École Biblique et Archéologique Française

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/ba.2018.8.2.01