Jeremiah has been a prophet--indeed, the Hebrew prophet par excellence, his very name a synonym for warning, chastising, and exhorting. To [David] Rosenberg, however, the person (or people) who wrote this book is primarily a poet, whose "main form is the prophet's oracle"--much as we might say that Shakespeare's main form was the sonnet.At most, prophet was Jeremiah's day job, the conventional mask he put on in order to voice his poetry more effectively.
from Adam Kirsch: Tablet: The Prophet's Pen
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