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Walking the Ancient Paths: A Commentary on Jeremiah is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it.” (Jeremiah 6:16) In Walking the Ancient Paths, distinguished Old Testament scholar Walter C. Kaiser Jr. draws on a lifetime of study to illuminate the book of Jeremiah for a contemporary audience. Following an introduction that surveys the historical and literary background of Jeremiah, along with its theological emphases,...

along with divine sovereignty there is just as strong a case to be made for human responsibility and human culpability. God has both a directive and a permissive will. Throughout the whole book of Jeremiah there is the repetition of the ancient words of promise given to the patriarchs and David intermingled with words of judgment (3:15–18; 12:14–16; 16:14–15; 23:5–8; 24:4–7). God will in the end rebuild and replant his people in their land, despite all that has happened in
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