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The purpose of this article is to analyze the report of the prophetic vocation in Jer. 1:4-10 from the perspective redaction criticism and tradition approach and to compare the motifs of this call narrative with them of Moses, Gideon and Isaiah who show similar motifs in their narratives as follows: vision confirming the call, the divine appointment of the prophet, the hesitant response of the chosen, and God's rejection to the hesitant response Despite these similar motifs, the characteristics motifs of the vocation in Jer. 1:4-10 make Jeremiah a warrior-like figure with kingly authority in order to make him a prophet to the nations. He received the mission to stand against nations, and against all the existing opinions of those who were standing before the judgment of God. As Moses carried with a kingly image establishing laws and institutions since the Exodus, and with a worrier-like image executing war against many nations until their arriving at the plains of Moab, so Jeremiah with the authority of kings and warriors, as a prophet to nations, has to execute wars. God encouraged Jeremiah to confront his mission, and said ‘Don’t be afraid of them!’ God will with Jeremiah when the prophet will root out, pull down, destroy, and throw down all the sins of the past, and build, and plant for new future. In uncertain and harsh reality after the destruction of the kingdom of Judah, the redactor(s) purposed to show Jeremiah as a new Moses-like prophet without negative image, and on the basis of Jeremiah’s word the redactor(s) tried to pave the way for future.
