Surrender to the King of Babylon

This study of the surrender to Babylon uses an interdisciplinary approach that includes historical-critical, linguistic, semiotic, communicative, and symbolic methods. The act of surrender is seen as a "prophetic choice" of theological significance, representing obedience to YHWH that goes beyond the political, ethical, and sapiential dimensions

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Table of Contents Acknowlegements - General Introduction - "Where are your own prophets who prophesied to you saying: 'The king of Babylon will not attack you or this land'?" (Jer 37:19) - The thematic emergence of the surrender to the king of Babylon.Orientative literary-hermeneutical coordinates - Facing the might of the Babylonianempire.Historicalinternational emergenciesas the pragmatic context of the call to surrender - The surrender as acceptance of the end:A symbolic-narrative prolepsis and hermeneutical key to an entire history - The world beneath the yoke of the king of Babylon:The multi-levelled ante factum of the prophetic call to surrender - Jeremiahand Zedekiah: The final colloquy.A paradigmatic dramatisation of human-divine communication - The gesture of the surrender: Phenomenology and symbolic apertures - The surrender to the king of Babylon as "Prophetic-Obediential consigna(c)tion" (POC) The surrender to the king of Babylon as a "symbolic-prophetic choice" - General conclusions (and apertures)."But what will you do when the end comes?" (Jer 5:31)