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Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 27: Jeremiah 26–52 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Examine the compositional sources, textual witnesses, chronology, and theological significance of Jeremiah. 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 companion whether you are...

29.a. Holladay’s translation, following Vg obstipuerunt, “become numb.” 30.a. See Note 29.a. 31.a-a. BHS and Rudolph (201) would remove this phrase as an ddition, citing its absence from v 33. 32.a. The same word is translated “parents” in v 29. 32.b-b. LXX καὶ ἐγὼ ἠμέλησα αὐτῶν, “and I loathed them,” from געלתי, “I loathed,” as in Heb 8:9. αʹ and Vg support MT, which should be retained. 33.a. A few MSS read, בני, “sons/children of.” MT’s “house of” follows the diction of v 31. 33.b. Several
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