An Ambiguous Oracle in the Prophecy against Elam (Jeremiah 49:34-39)

Raanan Eichler

doi:10.1163/15685330-bja10049

An Ambiguous Oracle in the Prophecy against Elam (Jeremiah 49:34-39)

Raanan Eichler

The Zalman Shamir Department of Hebrew Bible at Bar-Ilan University

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Abstract Jeremiah 49:38, the penultimate verse in the Bible's only prophecy against Elam, reads: "Then I shall set my throne in Elam and exterminate king and princes from there - declares Yhwh."It is argued here that the verse has two plausible and quite different meanings, that it was designed to convey both, and that as such it is a deliberately ambiguous oracle.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	183-190
Number of pages	8
Journal	Vetus Testamentum
Volume	72
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/15685330-bja10049
State	Published - 2021

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Keywords

Elam
Jeremiah
ambiguity
double entendre
oracle
polysemy
throne

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