What is an anathoth?

sieska

Wikipedia has Anathoth (proper noun) being one of the cities given to the children of Aaron. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathoth I can find no refence to anathoth (common noun). The OED has no entry between anathemize and anatical. Jul 13 09, 10:35 AM

Watchkeeper

It's a symbol of hope. The prophet Jeremiah was in prison for "telling it like it is" when his cousin Hanamel came and asked him to buy a field in Anathoth. The problem was that the invading Babylonian army had overrun the country and was besieging Jerusalem where Jeremiah was imprisoned. It was a crazy thing to do. But at God's instruction Jeremiah bought the field, signing the required deed. “This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Take both this sealed deed and the unsealed copy, and put them into a pottery jar to preserve them for a long time.’ For this is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Someday people will again own property here in this land and will buy and sell houses and vineyards and fields’ ... Just as I have brought all these calamities on them, so I will do all the good I have promised them. Fields will again be bought and sold in this land about which you now say, ‘It has been ravaged by the Babylonians, a desolate land where people and animals have all disappeared.’ Yes, fields will once again be bought and sold — deeds signed and sealed and witnessed — in the land of Benjamin and here in Jerusalem, in the towns of Judah and in the hill country, in the foothills of Judah and in the Negev, too. For someday I will restore prosperity to them. I, the LORD, have spoken!” http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2032:7-44;&version=51; A modern example: "What would it mean to be people of hope - "the argument that defeats death; the genius that invents the future; all we know of God…."? I find myself thinking of last weekend, when people went running in memory of Terry Fox. Remember 1981, when a young 21 year old, filled with crazy Anathoth hope, dipped his foot into the Atlantic ocean at St. John's Newfoundland, and kept running until the recurrence of cancer stopped his body on the shores on Lake Superior… but it didn't stop his spirit, his hope. And now, twenty-five years later, people are still running the Marathon of Hope… two and a half million strong, in over fifty countries; over four hundred million dollars has been raised for cancer research in the last 25 years ... " http://www.standrewswesleychurch.bc.ca/sermons/september23-2007.htm Jul 13 09, 1:37 PM

LordBath

I seem to recall that it is 'A place from which an echo can be heard'. Jul 15 09, 9:35 AM