Jeremiah 21-36 Jack R. Lundbom, Jack R. Lundbom, Jack R. Lundbom

This second book of the three-volume "Anchor Bible Commentary" offers an astute translation and commentary on the middle sixteen chapters of "Jeremiah". Important themes in the present volume include injustice within Judah's royal house, sexual immorality among the clergy, and true versus false prophecy. Yet the prophet who thundered Yahweh's judgment was also the one who gave the remnant people - in oracle and in symbolic action - a promise and a hope, expressed climactically in a new and eternal covenant for future days. Here too is the only report in the Bible of an accredited scribe writing up a scroll of oracles for public reading at the Temple.This magisterial work of scholarship is sure to be essential to any biblical studies curriculum. "Jeremiah 21-36" draws on the best biblical scholarship to further our understanding of this preeminent prophet and his message to the world.

Jack R. Lundbom is an internationally respected authority on Jeremiah. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and held visiting appointments at Andover Newton Theological School, Yale Divinity School, The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, and Uppsala University in Sweden. Dr. Lundbom has traveled and lectured widely in Europe, the Near East, Africa, and the United States. He has twice been a Fulbright Professor in Germany, at Universitat Marburg in 1988--1989 and Universitat Tubingen in 2002. His many publications include Jeremiah: A Study in Ancient Hebrew Rhetoric, The Early Career of the Prophet Jeremiah, and the Anchor Bible Commentary Jeremiah 1-20. He is a Life Member at Clare Hall, Cambridge University.