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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,...

Bright (lvi) famously described the book of Jeremiah as giving the impression of “a hopeless hodgepodge thrown together without any discernible principle of arrangement at all.” Does the MT redaction envision a structure? Here are two modern proposals for the way the book is structured.35 Alexander Rofé sees four collections: visions, prophecies, and laments, mostly undated, in chs. 1–24; separate episodes, all dated, in chs. 25–36; continuous “biography” in chs. 37–45; and oracles
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