Jeremiah (The Old Testament Library)

by Leslie C. Allen

Publisher:

Westminster John Knox

, 2008

Overview

This book of Jeremiah offers a remarkable range of literature, including prose, poetry, homilies, oracles, and proverbs. This commentary understands the book as a work of religious literature, to be examined in its final form, yet with careful attention to the historical contexts of writing and development through which the text took shape. Jeremiah proclaimed a message of coming judgment, because of the people's unfaithful worship, and yet also emphasized the call to know Yahweh and to live as God’s faithful people. Through it all, Leslie C. Allen identifies a trajectory of grace, in which the proclamations of doom can be understood within the context of promises for a renewed future.

Contents

Top Highlights

“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)

Product Details

• Title: Jeremiah: A Commentary
• Author: Leslie C. Allen
• Edition: First Edition
• Series: The Old Testament Library
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox
• Print Publication Date: 2008
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 576
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Jeremiah › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780664222239, 0664222234
• Resource ID: LLS:OTL24JE
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:33:30Z

About Leslie C. Allen

Leslie Allen joined the School of Theology in 1983 as professor of Old Testament and served in that capacity until 2004. He is now senior professor of Old Testament. Commentaries Allen has written include Jeremiah in the Old Testament Library, Psalms and Ezekiel in the Word Biblical Commentary, and Chronicles in The New Interpreter’s Bible. Additionally he has been published in various books and scholarly journals including the Harvard Theological Review and the Journal of Theological Studies. In addition to mentoring PhD students, Allen teaches courses on the Hebrew Prophets, Writings, Psalms, and Lamentations. He is involved in associations in both the U.K. and the U.S. including the Society for Old Testament Study, Tyndale Fellowship, the Institute for Biblical Research, and the Society of Biblical Literature. He was also the recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant in 1988.