Segment 12: God Restores the People
Presenter: Walter Brueggemann
The destruction of Jerusalem in 587 B.C. and the exile of the Jewish
people caused them to ask questions about whether God could be trusted
in this crisis. This theological emergency did not lead to despair, but to
hope, expressed particularly in three responses in the Old Testament:
Jeremiah 30–31, hope in the promise of a new covenant; Ezekiel 37, the
metaphor of resurrection to describe the promise of homecoming; Isaiah
40–55, particularly 40, the promise of coming home, and 53, healing
through the suffering of others.
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