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Jeremiah is a long and complex book written in the closing years of Judah before the exile. Longman provides clear and accessible commentary, drawing out covenant as a central theme: the people’s violation, the consequences, and the promise of a new covenant to come. He also provides solid help for understanding and applying the ancient genre of lament found in Lamentations.

chapters 46–51 in the MT are found right after 25:13, and the nations are treated in a different order. With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, it was determined that the Septuagint text reflects a different Hebrew tradition. Two (4QJera [4Q70], 4QJerc [4Q72]) of the three fragmentary texts discovered at Qumran supported the MT tradition, but the third (4QJerb [4Q71]) agreed with the Greek tradition in both brevity and arrangement. These texts have recently been published by Tov (1997). While
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