Jeremiah (The Old Testament Library)

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“For a long time scholars could write off the shorter text of lxx with different explanations, but most now accept that it bears witness to an older Hebrew text than that of mt.” (Page 7)

“Bright (lvi) famously described the book of Jeremiah as giving the impression of ‘a hopeless hodgepodge thrown together without any discernible principle of arrangement at all.’” (Page 12)

“No interest is shown in the psychological means by which the divine message was apprehended by the human mind.” (Page 25)

“The mission of the classical prophets clustered around political crisis.” (Page 1)

“The book of Jeremiah is like an old English country house, originally built and then added to in the Regency period, augmented with Victorian wings, and generally refurbished throughout the Edwardian years. It grew over a long period of time. Jeremiah 36:32 refers to a book in the prophet’s own time (604 b.c.e.), which received subsequent supplementation.” (Page 11)