Note that this is a promise of fertility and a new start. it is the turn to the sequence in 1:10 that includes hope as well as pain within the divine repertoire.
To what extent do you see as announcing a new beginning as eschatology?
Careful, careful here not to fall into the old trap of speaking of Judaism as external v. the internal drive of Christianity. isn't this text proof enough of that fallacy? would it be wise to translate torah as instruction/teaching here and not law?
The god of the perfect memory will forgive, will bring to present life the past sins no more. the sins, not the people, are banished ot the outer darkness.
Get clear on what you mean by covenant/testament.Does a covenant mean more than a contract? doesn’t it seem to move into a social dimension immediately, for a people?
is the new covenant an admission of failure on the part of God’s relationship with the people?
Apply covenant language to the sacraments.
How do you see the role for the Spirit in this interior change?
we are in the same territory as Ezek 18 here. We see a shift from communal, inter-generational responsibility to individual responsibility. Why? the people obviously feel that the impending doom is not condign punishment.Stop for a moment, please. This turns against the great divine self-description in Ex. 34 This is a great example of devleopment and change within the corpus of the bible itself over time
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