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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...

conjectures either בעלתי or בחלתי (also ‘loathe’), the latter having been given by Joseph Kimchi (בעלתי ב = בחלתי ב). בעלתי ב is a difficulty which resists a decisive resolution; Sept. and Pesh. reach what seems to be the appropriate conclusion of the verse, but Volz’s proposal is a possibility. Levin (1985, pp. 55–60), with the deletion of v. 33a (for which there is no textual evidence), combines ואנכי בעלתי בם with vv. 33b: ‘I shall assert my authority over them; I shall be their God and they will
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