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Book of Jeremiah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Book of Jeremiah , or Jeremiah ( יִרְמְיָהוּ Yirməyāhū in Hebrew), is part of the Hebrew Bible, Judaism's Tanakh, and later became a part of Christianity's Old Testament. It was originall...
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The book of Jeremiah is one of the longest books of the Old Testament. It is also one of the most thrilling. In this article, we wish to give the reader an "Introduction" to this remarkable sacred narrative. ... The author of this book is Jeremiah, a prophet (cf. Dan. 9:2; Mt. 2:17) of the city of Anathoth,
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Jeremiah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jeremiah lived about a century after Isaiah. Both were sent to the southern kingdom of Judah with the capital at Jerusalem. The northern kingdom, the "Lost Ten Tribes," with their capital up in Samaria was by then long gone after being conquered by the Assyrians (2 Kings 17:22-23) (see Ancient Empires - Assyria).
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The prophet Jeremiah was active in Jerusalem during the tragic period of the city's destruction by the Babylonians, which occurred over several stages. Jeremiah prophesied during the reigns of various kings: beginning in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah (626 BCE), and then Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim,
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6:60). There is little disagreement over Jeremiah being the author of the book that bears his name, though its arrangement is probably due to Baruch, his amanuensis. ... 11. Which nation besides Judah received predictions of divine judgment in the book of Jeremiah?
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The Book of Jeremiah, verse by verse commentary, Robert Nguyen Cramer, BibleTexts.com. ... Bauer, Angela, Gender in the Book of Jeremiah:A Feminist Literary Reading. (Peter Lang, 1999) Review by Carolyn J. Sharp in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature.
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