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Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 26: Jeremiah 1–25 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Examine the compositional sources, textual witnesses, chronology, and theological significance of Jeremiah with Peter Craigie. Review and evaluate modern critical perspectives to Jeremiah, and consider the legacy of nineteenth-century “higher critical” understanding of Jeremiah as an evolutionary document. Organized for easy reference, Word Biblical commentaries make an ideal Bible study...

11–12 The first vision. The vision of the branch of an almond tree is slender in substance, but significant in meaning. What the prophet sees is simply a branch of an almond tree; presumably the branch was a living limb on a flourishing tree. The prophet is asked what it is that he sees; after responding, he is given a divine word that is at first rather perplexing: “I am watching my word, to carry it out.” In the interpretation of the vision and the accompanying oracle, it is necessary first
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