Anchor Bible, Vol. 21: Jeremiah - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385008236 ISBN 13: 9780385008235

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1965

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ah (Volume 21 in the acclaimed Anchor Bible), like most of the prophetic books, is an anthology containing a wide variety of literary forms.  This remarkable diversity gives the work a special appeal for students of literature, who find here striking parallels to later writings; for example, in the "confessions" one hears a voice not unlike John Donne's in the Holy Sonnets, and in the war poetry, one is reminded of pieces written two and a half millennia after Jeremiah, the war poems of Stephen Crane.

The life of Jeremiah (c. 627-580 B.C.) spanned a particularly crucial period in the history of Judah, the Southern Kingdom.  Except for a brief period of independence (under Josiah) she was under successive vassalages to Assyria, Egypt, and Babylonia.  In his introduction, John Bright elucidates the historical background of the events described in Jeremiah and clarifies the importance of Jeremiah's role to the history o

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1965
• ISBN 10: 0385008236
• ISBN 13: 9780385008235
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 524
• Editor: Bright John