Full Description
This book seeks to place before beginning students and general readers a representative discussion of material contained in the biblical book of Jeremiah. It is written for those who may never look into a Jeremiah commentary or read a scholarly work on one who arguably stands as the greatest of ancient Israel's prophets. These twenty essays can be read with profit by beginning students, adults in Bible-study classes, and people anywhere who simply want an introduction to Jeremiah and the book bearing his name. Hopefully this will generate interest, not only in Jeremiah, but in all the Hebrew prophets, who are without parallel in the ancient world, and who define the office of prophet up to the present day.
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
1 Jeremiah's Call and Commission (1:4-12, 13-19; 15:16-17)
2 Devotion in the Wilderness, Abandonment in the Land (2:1-3, 4-9, 10-13)
3 If You Return, to Me Return (3:1-5, 19-20, 21-25; 4:1-2)
4 The Foe from the North (4:3-4, 5-8, 23-26; 5:14b-17)
5 Pardon for Jerusalem? (5:1-9)
6 Temple Oracles and a Day in Court (7:1-7, 8-11, 12-15; 26:1-24)
7 Laments and Weeping (8:18-21; 8:22-9:2; 9:20-22; 14:17b-15:3)
8 Droughts Without and Within (14:2-6, 7-9, 10-16; 15:15-18, 19-20)
9 Prisons Without and Within (19:1-13; 19:14-20:6; 20:7-10, 11-13
10 Cursed Be the Day, Cursed Be the Man (20:14-18)
11 Woe to the Kings! (21:1-23:8)
12 Woe to the Prophets! (23:9-40)
13 Cupbearer at Banquet for the Nations (25:15-29; 46-51)
14 Jeremiah Meets Hananiah (27:1-28:17)
15 Letters to the Good Figs in Exile (24; 29:1-32)
16 Rechabites Faithful, Zedekiah and Judah Unfaithful (34-35)
17 The New and Eternal Covenant (31:31-34; 32:38-40)
18 Jeremiah Buys a Field (32)
19 Suffering, Imprisonment, and Rescue (37-38; 39:11-14; 40:1-6)
20 Scribes of the Jeremiah Book (36:1-8; 45; 51:59-64)
Bibliography
Scripture Index
