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Jeremiah 21–36: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

This second book of the 3-volume Anchor Yale Bible commentary on Jeremiah offers an astute translation and commentary on the middle sixteen chapters of Jeremiah. Important themes in the present volume include injustice within Judah’s royal house, sexual immorality among the clergy, and true versus false prophecy. Yet the prophet who thundered Yahweh’s judgment was also the one who gave the...

God and his people will rest following the collapse of the Mosaic covenant and Israel’s loss of nationhood in 586 B.C. This new relationship, which Yahweh himself will create, is anticipated in other terms by Jeremiah (24:7; 32:38–40; 50:5) and also by Ezekiel (Ezek 16:60; 34:25; 36:27–28; 37:26), Second Isaiah (Isa 42:6; 49:8; 54:10; 55:1–5; 59:21; 61:8), and Malachi (Mal 3:1; cf. 2:1–9). The new covenant forms the centerpiece of a larger hope that includes a new act of salvation, a new Zion, and
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