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Work #1811

Book of Jeremiah

Jeremiah ben Hilkiah (with Baruch ben Neriah as scribe)
c. 627–580 BCE (oracles); redacted and expanded through the 6th–5th centuries BCE · Biblical Hebrew
Prophetic oracles, biographical prose, confessional poetry, historical narrative · Israelite prophetic tradition

The suffering prophet who promised a new covenant written on the heart — from the ruins of Jerusalem

Attribute Fingerprint

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Attribute Book of Jeremiah
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Finite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature not engaged
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality not engaged
Matter · Extent Finite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Non-conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality not engaged
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Mediated
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Revelation
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Reversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Book of Jeremiah

Linear and eschatological: judgement now, restoration in the future. "I know the plans I have for you" (29:11).

Space

Book of Jeremiah

Substantival and theologically charged: Jerusalem, Babylon, Egypt. "Do I not fill heaven and earth?" (23:24).

Matter

Book of Jeremiah

The potter-and-clay metaphor (18:1-6): matter is the raw material of divine sovereignty, non-conserved.

Observer

Book of Jeremiah

The suffering prophet who sees and speaks the word of God at personal cost; knowledge mediated by revelation.

Energy

Book of Jeremiah

"Is not my word like fire … and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?" (23:29) — divine energy as transformative force.

Information

Book of Jeremiah

The scroll burned by Jehoiakim is re-dictated with additions (36:32) — the divine word cannot be destroyed.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Book of Jeremiah

Prophetic obedience vs. personal anguish; the covenant-making God vs. the covenant-destroying God; the new covenant resolves but at the cost of the entire pre-exilic cultic structure.