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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Jeremiah, Volume 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

emendations offered are הבשׁשׁה (ex בושׁ), synonymous with תתחמקין ‘indecisive’ (Duhm); שׁדודה ‘distracted’ (Cornill); השׁובָבָה = המשֹׁבָבָה ‘whom homecoming beckons’ (Rudolph). For תתחמקין (the form with final nun coincides with Arabic; cf. GK 47o) Sept. has ἀποστρέψεις ‘turn away’ and this is favoured by Giesebrecht (‘defect’) who cites Cant 5:6 (חמק = ‘had turned away’, NEB, REB). Vulg. has deliciis dissolveris ‘distracted with luxuries’, Targ. מתחסנא למתב ‘hold yourselves back from returning’
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