James has a quote and then writes,
Oh, I like that! It sounds like Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Imagine finding it in Deuteronomy!
Idle musings of a bookseller: A new heart in Deuteronomy?.
Agreed. Oh wait, you don’t know what James is really saying?
I’ll help. What he is saying is that:
Jeremiah’s heart and Ezekiel’s heart and the heart in Deuteronomy are all the same. Further, he is alluding to the fact that Jeremiah was the proto-prophet of Deuteronomy 18 and the new covenant of both Jeremiah and Ezekiel is Deuteronomy.
James Spinti, as paraphrased by Joel Watts.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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You’re really getting into this Deuteronomistic history thing.
Deuteronomy was the first and the last. All that other OT stuff was just filler
Joel,
Thanks for the link, although I’m not sure I would entirely agree with your paraphrase!
James
James,
I take consistent disagreement with Joel as a defining mark of a true scholar.
What? Someone disagrees with me? That explains the great disturbance in the force I felt earlier