Keywords
biblical Hebrew, Jeremiah 1:5, foreordination, prophets
Abstract
Drawing on his deep knowledge of biblical Hebrew, Dana Pike gives us a close reading of Jeremiah 1:5, the most important Old Testament verse relating to the Latter-day Saint understanding of premortal existence of human spirits and the foreordination of prophets to their appointed callings. He shows that the plain sense of this verse cannot be easily dismissed: first, and consistent with Latter-day Saint understanding, God knew Jeremiah before he was conceived and that afterward, in a second phase that transpired in the womb, he was, “according to the Israelite perspective preserved in the Bible,” appointed to become a prophet.
Recommended Citation
Pike, Dana M.
(2020)
"Formed in and Called from the Womb,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 41, Article 11.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol41/iss1/11
