Loading…

Jeremiah: A Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book of Jeremiah offers a remarkable range of literature, including prose, poetry, homilies, oracles, and proverbs. This commentary understands the book as a work of religious literature, to be examined in its final form, yet with careful attention to the historical contexts of writing and development through which the text took shape. Jeremiah proclaimed a message of coming judgment,...

Evidently the unit in 16:2–9 was once a companion piece to 15:15–21, but it has been made the nucleus of a separate composition decrying pagan religion, a theme that puts the basic piece to a new hermeneutical use. The literary system of compositions and blocks has been retained in MT with additional units sometimes slotted into it. The fundamental arrangement in compositions reveals that the collection of foreign oracles placed in LXX in the middle of ch. 25 is a first attempt to integrate them
Page 11
Buy this book at Logos.com