At the center of the promise of a new covenant in Jer 31:31–34 is YHWH’s promise that he himself will one day write his Torah on Israel’s heart. This has been and still is widely interpreted as a criticism and denigration of the written version of the Torah in a book and of the passing on of that Torah through teaching and learning. In contradiction to this, it is proposed hereto understand the promise as an ultimate revaluation of the written Torah and of its catechetical-didactic communication in an eschatological vision.
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