Elena Di Pede

Lorsque Jérémie joue les faux prophètes : la tentation des Récabites (Jr 35) comme réflexion sur la vraie et la fausse prophétie

Le chapitre 35 du livre qui porte le nom de Jeremie raconte une curieuse anecdote concernant les Recabites, une tribu marginale et probablement non israelite, que le prophete amene au temple pour boire du vin. Cet etrange recit est en realite une lecon pratique pour refuser une parole qui se presente comme prophetique mais qui n’est autre que celle d’un faux prophete. Elena Di Pede [*] montre que, dans sa maniere de raconter cet episode, le narrateur Jeremie met tout son art au service de cette lecon afin qu’elle soit efficace pour son destinataire, que celui-ci soit intra ou extradiegetique.

La manière de raconter et l'enjeu du récit. Jérémie présente Ananias en Jer 28,1 TM et 35,1 LXX

The way in which a story is told determines the aim and the significant elements of the particular telling which is thus produced, as any telling of a story comes down to putting into action a narrative strategy with a view to achieving a certain effect on the reader. When one has two versions of the same story, one can, by comparison, assess the strategy used in each one. That is the aim of the present note, which analyses the presentation that Jeremiah offers of his adversary Hananiah in Jer 28,1 (mt)/35,1 (lxx).

Jérémie et les rois de Juda, Sédécias et Joaqim

From a literary point of view, particularly a narrative one, chapters xxxii-xxxix of Jeremiah, often cut up by the critics into various pericopes, present a beautiful unity of content. An element of this unity is the presence of a repeated scene, namely, the meeting between the king (Zedekia and Joaqim) and the prophet. These repeated scenes reveal that the relationship between king and prophet becomes more and more complicated and conflict-provoking as the story goes on. Moreover, presenting his story in this way, the narrator increases the suspense about the prophets destiny and the future of his mission : the welcoming of Yhwhs word by the people.