A Commentary on Jeremiah: Exile and Homecoming (Biblia.com)

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Jeremiah’s poignant lament over Judah’s social and religious disintegration reflects God’s own pathos-laden yearning for his disobedient covenant people. In this widely praised expository commentary Walter Brueggemann, one of the premier Old Testament scholars of our time, explores the historical setting and message of Jeremiah as well as the text’s relevance for the church today. Offering a...

the very assumptions it seems to endorse. This perspective is evident in the work of Kathleen O’Connor, Angela Bauer, Renita Weems, and Gale Yee.6 Of course it cannot be argued that such a perspective is “innocent,” so that we are able to see an interface or overlap between an insider’s attentiveness and an outsider’s “ideological” perspective. The outcome of such a way of reading is to help us see that in the amazing artistry of the book, every reading, including those canonical and ideological

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