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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,...

4, 11, and 13 and ensuing dialogues, and to discern three sections, vv. 4–10, 11–12, and 13–19.5 Another approach that reflects diverse content as a clue to structural intent is to see a chiasm, ABB′A′, in which “a second time” in v. 13 demarcates vv. 13–19 from vv. 4–12, rather than just the second vision from the first, assuming that the oracle reception statement in v. 11 has a lesser structural role. Then the two vision-oracle accounts in vv. 11–12 and 13–14 function as a double core for the
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