Guiding Questions: Jeremiah 10

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. What practices of the “other peoples” are denounced and to be avoided in the opening peroration of Jeremiah 10?
  2. And in sum, the truth of the matter is set forth in Jeremiah 10:10. Who then, is, indeed, God?
  3. Why is Jeremiah 10:11 cast in the Aramaic?
  4. What is the appropriate “portion” of Jacob (Jeremiah 10:16)?
  5. Who is speaking in Jeremiah 10:20? What is the “tent”? Who are “my children”?
  6. And who are the “shepherds” who have not served properly?
  7. In Jeremiah 10:22, from what direction is the destruction to come?
  8. Jeremiah 10:25 has been carried over into a major Jewish text. Which?

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Perek Yomi materials originally produced by the USCJ and Dr. Morton K. Siegel.
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