Reading Jeremiah in Africa: Biblical Essays in Sociopolitical Imagination

The book of Jeremiah is often presented as one of the most difficult texts in the Bible yet it is also a text that speaks with immediacy and power to some of the greatest challenges facing our world today.In Reading Jeremiah in Africa Dr. Bungishabaku Katho offers a study that is both accessible and deeply relevant to the particularities of an African context. In a series of ten selected passages Dr. Katho demonstrates the many parallels between Jeremiahs Judah and a continent that continues to experience the complex and devastating realities of poverty injustice and war. Katho reminds us however that Jeremiah is also an exercise in imagination. It is a book of hope and Katho like Jeremiah dares to dream past the present and into a future where God is known and humans flourish.