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This critical assessment of the Book of Jeremiah enables the reader to rediscover many of the most profound and relevant features of Jeremiah's message and of the agonies and fears of those to whom it was first given. The picture that emerges of such a prophet is an intensely moving one, often at variance with the conventional image of earlier popular reconstructions. Having witnessed the loss of...

end to the power of Babylon and so send the exiles back to their homes. Rather they were to be built upon the painful acceptance of the reality of Babylonian rule in the present. Consequently they had to adapt to this situation and learn to endure it. The words in which Jeremiah’s assurance of an ultimate return to Judah are couched point the reader to a remarkable and intense inwardness of religion: “You will seek me and find me; when you seek me with all your heart” (29:13). The period of waiting
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