Wholly Buyable

184: The Lie (Jeremiah 26-29)

Chas Bayfield Season 20 Episode 184

The last thing a prisoner in the ancient Near East is expected to do is buy land.

Especially when that land is currently being trampled by enemy armies.

Who might kill him.

Jeremiah's book is all about theatre, especially if that theatre can provide a teachable moment.

And so papyrus, ink, scales for weighing silver, sealing wax and witnesses are brought to the prophet's cell.