Second Temple Songs of Zion by Ruth Henderson

Author:Ruth Henderson [Henderson, Ruth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2014-06-24T00:00:00+00:00

Bar. 4:8 And you forgot the everlasting God who nourished you, and you grieved700 Jerusalem who reared you.

Israel’s offence is stated in three parallel aorist indicative verbs of which Israel, addressed in the second person, is the subject, (“you provoked” // “you forgot”// and “you grieved”). The object of these verbs are constructed as three parallel aorist active participles: (“having brought you into existence”// “having nourished you”// “having reared you”). The first two of these participles refer to God while the third refers to Jerusalem The parallelism of “the eternal God” and “Jerusalem” who share the role of parenting Israel is striking, for although in biblical literature God is depicted as the Father of Israel (Deut 32:5; Isa 63:16; Hos 11:1) and Jerusalem as their mother (Ps 87:4–5, Isa 49:20–21; 54:1; 60:9), the parallelism of God and Jerusalem as co-parents is not found.

These particles serve to emphasize the enormity of Israel’s offence in their ungrateful response to the parental care of God//Jerusalem. The principle of contrast is also used to emphasize the seriousness of Israel’s exchange of the worship of God who is “the everlasting God” (4:8) for that of demons, in the antithetic parallelism of “sacrificing to demons” // “and not to God.”(4:7).

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