Jeremiah 2: A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, Chapters 26–52 (Hermeneia Commentary | HERM)

by William L. Holladay

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 1989

Overview

This volume includes a full introduction, which deals with the development of the text and the literary development from the earliest dictated scrolls to its final form.

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Key Features

• Includes a number of valuable insights
• Presents a detailed and authoritative interpretation
• Provides a fantastic commentary for students, teachers, scholars, and professors

Contents

• Foreword to Hermeneia
• Author’s Foreword
• Reference Codes
• Editor’s Note
• Introduction
• The Text of the book of Jeremiah
• Analysis of the Literary
• The Prophet Jeremiah
• The Life and Times of Jeremiah
• The Sources on Which Jeremiah Drew: The Data
• The Person and Proclamation of Jeremiah
• Commentary

Top Highlights

“the Proto-Masoretic text thus became the standard one in Palestine.” (Page 6)

“The question becomes: In the main is G a shortened form of M, or is M an expanded form, of G?” (Page 3)

“The disparity between M and G in Jer is well known: Jer is comparable to the Books of Samuel in the contrasting texts of M and G. But whereas in Samuel M is often shorter and defective in comparison with G, in Jer M is longer: Friedrich Giesebrecht estimated that about twenty-seven hundred words of M are lacking in G, while G contains about one hundred words lacking in M;⁷ the result is that G is about one-eighth shorter than M. The question of the relation between G and M has been discussed for a century and a half,⁸ but until the recovery of the Qumran material it was possible to slight the importance of G: one could assume that its omissions had arisen secondarily within the Greek tradition, whether by design or accidentally.” (Pages 2–3)

“Greek Version (the Septuagint, hereinafter G) differs markedly from the traditional Hebrew text (the Masoretic text, hereinafter M): the oracles against foreign nations (chaps. 46–51) as a group are to be found in G after 25:13*, and there in an altogether different sequence from that in M. And more generally in the prose passages of the book the text of G often does not exhibit phrases and sequences present in M most of these omissions are short, but a few are extensive—the longest being 33:14–26*.” (Page 1)

“The presence at Qumran of a Hebrew text representing the text tradition of G (4QJer^b) dating from the Hasmonean period alongside a Proto-Masoretic text from the beginning of the second century b.c.e. (4QJer^a) immediately raises the question of the origin of these two text types.” (Page 6)

Product Details

• Title: Jeremiah 2: A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, Chapters 26–52
• Author: William L. Holladay
• Series: Hermeneia
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 1989
• Logos Release Date: 2006
• Pages: 544
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Jeremiah 26-52 › Commentaries
• Resource ID: LLS:HRMNEIA24BJR
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-24T16:25:20Z

About William L. Holladay

William L. Holladay is Professor of Old Testament at the Andover Newton Theological School. He received his B.A. degree from the University of California, and graduated (summa cum laude) with a B.D. degree from the Pacific School of Religion in 1951. His Th.D. was granted by the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, in 1958.

Holladay has contributed articles to a variety of scholarly and professional journals, including the Journal of Bible and Religion, the Journal of Biblical Literature, Vetus Testamentum, Harvard Divinity Bulletin and the Middle East Newsletter.