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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...

We know very little about Jeremiah’s early life aside from what is mentioned in the superscription of his book (1:1). His father was very glad the day he was born (20:15), and he too may have been joyful earlier in life (8:18: “My joy is gone”). Jeremiah was born the son of Hilkiah, a priest at Anathoth, which was a village 2–3 miles north of Jerusalem in the old territory of Benjamin. The ancient village survives in the modern village of ‘Anata.
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