In this important addition to the Old Testament Library, renowned
scholar Brevard S. Childs writes on the Old Testament’s most important
theological book. He furnishes a fresh translation from the Hebrew and
discusses questions of text, philology, historical background, and
literary architecture, and then proceeds with a critically informed,
theological interpretation of the text.
The additional one for
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Leslie C. Allen (Fuller Theological Seminary OT professor)
This book of Jeremiah offers a remarkable range of literature, including
prose, poetry, homilies, oracles, and proverbs. This commentary
understands the book as a work of religious literature, to be examined
in its final form, yet with careful attention to the historical contexts
of writing and development through which the text took shape. Jeremiah
proclaimed a message of coming judgment, because of the people's
unfaithful worship, and yet also emphasized the call to know Yahweh and
to live as God’s faithful people. Through it all, Leslie C. Allen
identifies a trajectory of grace, in which the proclamations of doom
can be understood within the context of promises for a renewed future.
