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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,...

Yahweh’s vigilant “eyes” hauntingly frame 16:17. Key words with different applications can pervade a passage, like the Hebrew root ykl, rendered “win,” in 20:7–13. The same root is used as a powerful undercurrent in 38:1, 5, 22. In 40:7–41:18 key verbs pervade three subsections, “come” in 40:7–12, “kill” in 40:13–41:9, and “set off” in 41:10–18. The verbs divide the narrative development into a triptych of nullified hope. Oral tradition credits H. L. Ellison with the statement
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