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Jeremiah and Lamentations: An Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

With the ancient Near East in a state of ferment and the nation of Judah experiencing a succession of political crises, God stationed a man on the scene to speak the divine word. Jeremiah was called by God to the unhappy task of telling an unheeding nation it was going to be judged and destroyed. Often he seemed to despair, yet he continued to utter God’s truth fearlessly, leaving as part of his...

concerned predominantly with the great religious reformation which he instituted. The first stage of this programme occurred in the eighth year of his reign (c. 631 BC), not long before the death of Ashurbanipal (c. 626 BC),1 the last great Assyrian ruler. Jeremiah seems to have been influenced profoundly by the way in which Josiah consistently renounced the corrupt polytheism which his father Amon and his grandfather Manasseh had espoused. After the death of Ashurbanipal the Assyrians were so beset
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