The Covenant Motif in Jeremiah's Book of Comfort: Textual and Intertextual Studies of Jeremiah
30-33 examines Jeremiah's promise of a new covenant that God will interiorize his law into
people's hearts. This in-depth syntactic semantic and pragmatic study of selected texts in
Jeremiah 30-33 comprises the foundation for a superb biblical theology of the new covenant.
God's pledge that this covenant is «not like the one I made with your fathers» is explored in
relation to the Abrahamic Mosaic and Davidic covenants. Tiberius Rata makes a theologically
and hermeneutically balanced incursion into Old Testament texts used in the New Testament and
provides a springboard for further discussion on difficult yet important issues such as the
Lord's Supper and the future of Israel.
