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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,...

Prophecy is a psychic gift that in many cultures has been harnessed to religion. Even now Protestant and Catholic charismatic groups practice it, in addition to Pentecostal denominations. According to the NT, the church was “built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets” (Eph 2:20; cf. 3:5; 4:11). A major part of the OT canon is made up of the books of the classical prophets, while in the Hebrew Bible these “Latter Prophets” are traditionally associated with the “Former Prophets,”
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