Speaker for the God

Jerusalem 615 BCE: The scribe Baruch saves Yirmeyahu Speaker for the god Yahweh from assassination. Why then does the young prophet hold a knife to his rescuers throat?Jeremiah is enraged at Baruchs complicity years ago in the stoning of Jeremiahs beloved Rivqah. He grants Baruch life--on condition that Baruch serve as the prophets scribe taking down the words of the war god Yahweh. The gods words however bring Jeremiah Baruch and his hearers nothing but doom. Yahwehs words rouse starving workers on the kings new palace to revolt--only to be slaughtered. They foretell the defeat of his nation by Babylon--only to bring condemnation on Jeremiah when his prophecy proves true. And whenever Jeremiah reaches for the love of a woman Yahwehs jealous consort Asherah thrwarts him--Rivqah is only the first of her victims. As Jeremiah with Baruch struggles to free himself from these deities a new series of devastating revelations leads him and his scribe towards reconciliation with the god the goddess their people and themselves.