Avram Shannon on Jeremiah (week of Oct. 10, first to listen to)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 539 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Avram and Kerry discuss the background to the book of Jeremiah and Jeremiah's call and what all of this has to do with us.
You can find a chart correlating the chapters in Jeremiah the the historical chapters of 2 Kings, and a chart putting all of the chapters of Jeremiah in chronological order (as best we can) at Kerry's website: https://www.outofthedust.org/old-testament-aids/.
Kerry and Avram mention the book "Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem," which can be found at https://mi.byu.edu/book/glimpses-of-lehi-s-jerusalem/.
We are grateful for our sponsor, Lisa Spice, and for Alexia Muhlestein, who edited this episode, and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the scriptures are real podcast. This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the |
| 0:21.0 | scriptures that have made them become real to us because we believe that helps us draw more power |
| 0:25.0 | into our lives from the scriptures and we need all the help we can get. I'm your host, Carrie |
| 0:29.8 | Mealstein, and I'm so grateful to have back with us, someone who's been with us a few times |
| 0:34.4 | before, my good friend and colleague, Dr. Avram Shanan, |
| 0:38.1 | Shannon, who is just a fantastic scholar and has studied at BYU and Oxford and Ohio. |
| 0:47.3 | And I've been teaching with us for a number of years. |
| 0:50.1 | And you probably remember him from, we did Leviticus together, I think, and some other things. |
| 0:56.5 | And I had so much positive feedback on that. |
| 0:59.9 | It seemed like it was time to have him back. |
| 1:01.6 | And I know he loves Jeremiah. |
| 1:02.8 | So we're here to talk about Jeremiah. |
| 1:04.1 | Welcome, Avram. |
| 1:05.1 | Thanks, Carrie. |
| 1:05.7 | I am very happy to be here. |
| 1:07.1 | And I do dearly love Jeremiah. |
| 1:10.2 | It's in terms of the prophetic texts, I think Jeremiah |
| 1:12.8 | is one of my favorites. He's just, for one thing, we talk about the scriptures are real. Jeremiah |
| 1:17.5 | always keeps it real. He does. He really does. And he's really grounded in what's happening in his day |
| 1:25.0 | in Jerusalem and in Judah in general. And you're right, |
| 1:30.5 | he is just fun. I love so much, Jeremiah. I'll just tell you one of my favorite classes as a |
| 1:34.8 | graduate student was a course where we translated all of the prose passages of Jeremiah with |
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