A Commentary on Jeremiah: Exile and Homecoming

by Walter Brueggemann

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 1998

Overview

Jeremiah’s poignant lament over Judah’s social and religious disintegration reflects God’s own pathos-laden yearning for his disobedient covenant people. In this widely praised expository commentary Walter Brueggemann, one of the premier Old Testament scholars of our time, explores the historical setting and message of Jeremiah as well as the text’s relevance for the church today.

Offering a fresh look at the critical theological issues in the Jeremiah tradition, Brueggemann argues that Jeremiah’s voice compels us to rediscern our own situation, issuing an urgent invitation to faith, obedience, justice, and compassion.

This combined edition of Brueggemann’s original two-volume work, published until recently as part of the International Theological Commentary series, is an essential resource for students, pastors, and general readers alike. It is reprinted here with a new introduction by Brueggemann that surveys the current state of Jeremiah studies.

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Key Features

• Presents a comprehensive commentary on the book of Jeremiah
• Examines Jeremiah from both historic and theological perspectives
• Separates the analysis into defined segments and chapters

Contents

• The Word through Jeremiah (1:1-19)
• The Wild Vine (2:1-37)
• Return to Me (3:1–4:4)
• Terror on Every Side (4:5–6:30)
• Jeremiah’s Temple Sermon (7:1–8:3)
• No Balm in Gilead (8:4–10:25)
• The Covenant Broken (11:1-17)
• A Hard Message to Stubborn Jerusalem (11:18–20:18)
• Judgment and Hope (21:1–25:38)
• Truth Speaks to Power (26:1–29:32)
• “The Book of Comfort” (30:1–33:26)
• A Case Study in Fidelity (34:1–35:19)
• The “Baruch Document” (36:1–45:5)
• The Oracles against the Nations (46:1–51:64)
• An Ending and a Chance (52:1-34)

Product Details

• Title: A Commentary on Jeremiah: Exile and Homecoming
• Author: Walter Brueggemann
• Series: International Theological Commentary (ITC)
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Publication Date: 1998
• Pages: 516
• Resource Type: Commentaries
• Topic: Jeremiah

About Walter Brueggemann

Walter Brueggemann is the William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. He is the author of numerous biblical commentaries and scholarly works, including A Social Reading of the Old Testament, The Threat of Life, Theology of the Old Testament, and The Prophetic Imagination.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Poetic anguish, lyrical expectation, metaphorical openness, and imaginative ambiguity are ways in which sovereign hurt and fidelity are mediated to us. This powerful mediating shocks our intellectual self-confidence and invites us to reengage life with courage, awe, and submissiveness. This commentary is about that other holy, passionate, powerful intention that plucks up and tears down, that plants and builds, that subverts and amazes.” (Page 20)

“The counsel to settle in exile (vv. 5–9) is against the popular notion that the Exile is short and temporary. The counsel to look beyond exile (vv. 10–14) is against the temptation to despair.” (Page 260)

“First, Judah’s relation with Yahweh is like a marriage” (Page 32)

“The Jeremiah literature is familiar with the realities of imperial politics and is conversant with those modes of thinking. However, Jeremiah does not pursue a Realpolitik interpretation of Judah’s crisis of termination and displacement, but offers a different, alternative reading of those events. As an alternative to a political analysis, the tradition of Jeremiah proceeds on the basis of a theological perspective.” (Page 2)

“It does mean, however, that the book’s proper climate is a community that expects to be addressed in dangerous and unsettling ways by the holiness that sounds here.” (Page xiii)

Product Details

• Title: A Commentary on Jeremiah: Exile and Homecoming
• Author: Walter Brueggemann
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 1998
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Jeremiah › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780802802804, 080280280, 080280280X
• Resource ID: LLS:COMMONJEREMIAH
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:56:03Z

About Walter Brueggemann

Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. He is past president of the Society of Biblical Literature and the author of numerous books, including David’s Truth: In Israel’s Imagination and Memory, Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching Genesis, and The Message of the Psalms: A Theological Commentary.