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- Title: Critical Note.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2004
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 159 KB
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[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (JEREMIAH 17:9) What does Jeremiah mean when he asserts that the heart is "crooked" ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII])? (1) Many commentators take the prophet to be bemoaning the heart's deceitfulness. According to William McKane, for example, Jer 17:9 expounds "the incurable sickness of perversity and deceit with which it [the heart] is afflicted." (2) The verse thus attests a popular biblical motif, the universality of sin. (3) This approach to Jer 17:9, which I shall call the ontological, relies on the well-attested link between the root [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] and the notion of deceit. (4) Moreover, deceitfulness is the sort of moral illness that [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], "mortally sick," the other adjective modifying [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] in the verse, could figuratively describe. (5)
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