Jeremiah: Pain and Promise

by Kathleen M. O'Connor

Book Overview

Whether dealing with collective catastrophe or intimate trauma, recovering from emotional and physical hurt is hard. Kathleen O'Connor shows that although Jeremiah's emotionally wrought language can aggravate readers' memories of pain, it also documents the ways an ancient community-and the prophet personally-sought to restore their collapsed social world. Both prophet and book provide a traumatized community language to articulate disaster; move...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800699300
• ISBN13: 9780800699307
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"