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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...

annulled. It had been “broken” so that it was no longer in force. This radical breach is given force by the introduction of the analogy of a broken marriage (v. 32). (3) In this promise of the new covenant the concepts of “law” and “covenant” are treated as virtually synonymous, which is also the case elsewhere in the Deuteronomistic usage. (4) A measure of uncertainty is left over what exactly the new covenant will amount to. A new law is not properly envisaged at all, but only a new way of Israel’s
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