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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Jeremiah, Volume 1 is unavailable, but you can change that!

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prophet Jeremiah, but rather with the rejection of the word of Yahweh spoken by his servants the prophets and the sad consequences of this for Judah. It therefore has an exilic setting as an edifying narrative, just as 7:1–15 has (Nicholson, pp. 69f.). Hence both Thiel and Nicholson conclude that 26 no less than 7 is a Deuteronomistic composition, although in the case of 26 Thiel maintains that a Source B text (vv. 1f., 6*, 7–9) has undergone a Deuteronomistic redaction (p. 106; cf. p. 133). The
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