Jeremiah (The Old Testament Library)

The book of Jeremiah is the longest book in the Bible and is correspondingly complex in its composition. It contains writings about Jeremiah, a prophet in the last years of the Southern Kingdom of Judah, prose writings ascribed to Jeremiah, and poetic oracles believed to have been uttered by him. This new commentary seeks to deal with issues of the origin of the various texts that form the book and to set them against their historical background. Well-known for his work on Jeremiah, Robert P. Carroll here makes a significant contribution to an understanding of scriptures with a commentary that will be important reading for all students of thie pivotal biblical book.