- Where is Jeremiah when the text of Jeremiah 32 is composed and what is the political/military situation?
- Why is Jeremiah incarcerated?
- What is the prophetic prediction for Tzidkiyahu and Jerusalem and Babylonia?
- What is meant by “the obligation to redeem” (Jeremiah 32:7-8)?
- What does Jeremiah 32:10 indicate as normative in property transactions at that time?
- Who is Barukh (Jeremiah 32:13)?
- What is the “message” of the transaction and its symbolism as set forth in Jeremiah 32:15?
- In Jeremiah 32:16-25 the prophet (most reverently) challenges the “message”. Why?
- What is the “Divine Response” (Jeremiah 32:26-41)?
- And what is the core principle of theodicy which explains the response (Jeremiah 32:42-44)? Is history happenstance and subject to human preference or the unfolding of God’s “plan” based on Israel’s mitzvah mode?
- How do Jeremiah 31-32 relate to one another: contradiction? parallelism?
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