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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...

associate these verses with the disaster of 586 (Giesebrecht, Cornill, Streane, M. Sekine, 1959, pp. 55f.; P. Buis, 1968, p. 4). The remark of Buis (p. 13) that there is no explicit reference to a return from exile may indicate that he is toying with a date earlier in Jeremiah’s career. It may be that 586 was regarded as the final break and that agonizing questions were asked whether it might not spell the end of the old covenant (cf. Thiel, 1981, p. 25), but, in any case, v. 32 refers to a history
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