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In this new volume from the Reading the Old Testament commentary series, biblical scholar Corrine Carvalho explores the book of Jeremiah—where books are burned in the palace and the temple is a jail. Reflecting the ways that communal tragedy permeates communal identity, the book of Jeremiah as literary text embodies the confusion, disorientation, and search for meaning that all such tragedy...

besieged the city of Jerusalem (597; 2 Kgs 24:8–17; 2 Chr 36:9–10). The city did not fall during this siege. Instead, the Babylonians took into captivity the elite members of Jerusalemite society, including the royal family, the priests who controlled the Jerusalem temple, and other high-ranking bureaucrats. They did not kill Jehoiakin, but kept him alive, probably hoping that this would deter those remaining in Judah from rebelling. They placed on the throne Mattaniah, another son of Josiah and
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