Dr. Anathea Portier-Young is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Duke University’s Divinity School. She holds an M.A.B.L from Graduate Theological Union/Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and a Ph.D. from Duke University. Portier-Young is the author of Apocalypse against Empire: Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism (Eerdmans, 2011), and co-editor (with Gregory E. Sterling) of Scripture and Social Justice: Catholic and Ecumenical Essays (Fortress, 2018).
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During the Babylonian siege, while Jeremiah was in King Zedekiah’s prison, he redeems his cousin’s land, upon YHWH’s instruction. The incarcerated prophet thus symbolically enacts the future restoration for the people who will soon be exiled from their land.
During the Babylonian siege, while Jeremiah was in King Zedekiah’s prison, he redeems his cousin’s land, upon YHWH’s instruction. The incarcerated prophet thus symbolically enacts the future restoration for the people who will soon be exiled from their land.
