Welcome to the book of the prophet Jeremiah! The book and the man are, of course, inseparably bound together, but it is important to recognize the difference between them. Jeremiah the prophet addressed the people of Judah and Jerusalem over a forty-year period leading up to the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BC (and for a few years after that). Jeremiah the book addressed the exiles in the years after the catastrophe, especially the exiles in Babylon where it seems most likely that