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Jeremiah 1–20: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Jeremiah, long considered one of the most colorful of the ancient Israelite prophets, comes to life in Jack R. Lundbom’s Jeremiah 1–20. From his boyhood call to prophecy in 627 B.C.E., which Jeremiah tried to refuse, to his scathing judgments against the sins and hypocrisy of the people of Israel, Jeremiah charged through life with passion and emotion. He saw his fellow Israelites abandon their...

Jeremiah accepts the call in 622 after the Temple scroll is found (Lundbom 1995). In a later confession he reflects on the importance of this event to him personally, saying, Your words were found and I ate them and your word was to me for joy and for the gladness of my heart For your name is called upon me Yahweh, the God of hosts (15:16) Jeremiah, in “eating” words of the Temple scroll, “eats” words that Yahweh promised earlier would be put into his mouth (1:9). Yahweh’s
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