새 언약 안에서 백성의 변형 : 예레미야 33:14-26의 분석

Abstract

This study has attempted to elucidate the theological significance of Jeremiah’s new covenant with regard to the people in the Kingdom of God. The thesis is that the new covenant of Jeremiah seeks to make God’s people in the eschaton the ones that will actualize the ideal of the kingly priests as suggested in the Mosaic Covenant. In making a case for this, this study proposes that the new covenant has, among other theological meanings, the sense of consummating the kingdom of God by making God’s people kingly priests who practice justice and righteousness.BR In this attempt, our chief attention has been devoted to analyzing the text of Jeremiah 33:14-26 by using the method of textlinguistics. The hermeneutical method of textlinguistics is basically text-oriented in nature, with the assumption that the meanings of a text is embedded in the text when the author tries to convey his intentions to his reader (or audience) through the text. In this method, the intended meanings of a text are culled out from the view point of grammatical cohesion and semantic (or thematic) coherence.BR The method of textlinguistics also has its concern on how the author impacts the reader in such a way that the reader should respond to the intended meanings of the text. In this respect, a trend in this method focuses its attention on the structures of literary units through which the author arranges his emphases in order to facilitate the reader’s understanding of the communicative effects of the text.BR On the basis of the method of textlinguistics, this study pays its attention to the literary structure of Jeremiah 33:14-26, with the result of arguing that this unit forms a thematic peak in the context of Jeremiah 30-33. Furthermore, our textlinguistic analysis lends credence to the notion that the reference to Davidic descendants and Levites in this unit implies that in the kingdom of God, the people will be made kings and priests.BR In conclusion, from the above observations, it is clear that this way of making an exegesis of a text enhances our understanding of the unified relation between the Old and New Testaments from the perspective of the new covenant. The new covenant of the Old Testament connotes the making of God’s people into kingly priests, which is explicitly announced in the New Testament.