A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Jeremiah, Vol. 1 (ICC)

by William McKane

Publisher:

T&T Clark

, 1986

ISBN: 9780567164902

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Top Highlights

“with the rejection of the word of Yahweh spoken by his servants the prophets and the sad consequences of this for Judah.” (Page 168)

“‘What is this that I have done?’, is offered as proof that the apostates have no inclination to change their evil ways. They are like a war-horse which has the scent of conflict, which is committed to the battle beyond recall and which will not be checked in the charge on which it has launched itself.” (Pages 183–184)

“Verses 14–16 are concerned with the stupidity of men, and the emptiness of their idols as compared with the reality of Yahweh: it is none other than the creator of the earth who has taken Israel into his special care (cf. vv. 6–7).” (Page 220)

“The verbs are more appropriate to those who worship idols or make them than they are to the idols themselves (cf. נבער in v. 14 and נבערו in v. 21).” (Page 220)

“It is arguable that we have a reverse creation narrative, an antitype which presupposes the existence of its type.” (Page 108)

...his work on the prophet Jeremiah (A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Jeremiah), in two large volumes published in 1986 [...] will perhaps be his most enduring legacy. In these volumes, McKane's skills achieve their ultimate expression: the rigorously high standards of scholarship he set himself and constantly strove to attain; his meticulous assembling of evidence from the ancient versions and the medieval commentaries; his innovative and influential theory of the "rolling canon"; his balanced presentation of different possibilities of interpretation.

—The Independent