Bibliography

Blank, S. H. (1986). Jeremiah. Philadelphia: Westminster.
Bozak, B. (1991). Life 'Anew'. A Literary --Theological Study of Jeremiah 30-31. Analecta Biblical 122. Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute.
Carroll, R. P. (1986). Jeremiah. Philadelphia: Westminster.: A major commentary which treats the Jeremiah traditions with considerable skepticism. Views the prose material as the work of a postexilic Deuteronomic school, and the poetry as the work not of Jeremiah but of anonymous exilic prophets.
Holladay, W. L. (1986). Jeremiah 1: A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, Chapters 1-25. Hermeneia Series. Philadelphia: Fortress.: A major commentary which treats both the prose and the poetic material of the book of Jeremiah as coming essentially from Jeremiah himself.
Holladay, W. L. (1989). Jeremiah 2: A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, Chapters 26-52. Hermeneia Series. Philadelphia: Fortress.
Holladay, W. L. (1990). Jeremiah: A Fresh Reading. New York: Pilgrim.: Based on a lifetime of study in Jeremiah, this makes Holladay's research easily accessible to the general reader than his massive and more technical two volume commentary.
King, P. J. (1993). Jeremiah: An Archaeological Companion. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.
McKane, W. (1986). The Book of Jeremiah. Vol I. International Critical Commentary Series. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark.: Takes a mediating position between Holladay and Carroll. He credits the prose material to an exilic Deuteronomic writer, and attributes the poetry to Jeremiah himself.
Nicholson, E. W. (1970). Preaching to the Exiles: A Study of the Prose Traditions in the Book of Jeremiah. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Perdue, L., and B. Kovacs, eds. (1984). A Prophet to the Nations: Essays in Jeremiah Studies. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.: A collection of classic journal articles on Jeremiah.
Polk, T. (1984). The Prophetic Persona: Jeremiah and the Language of the Self. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement 32. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic.
Raitt, T. A. (1977). A Theology of Exile: Judgment and Deliverance in Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Philadelphia: Fortress.: Analyzes the oracle types in these two prophetic books.
Seitz, C. R. (1989). Theology in Conflict: Reactions to the Exile in the Book of Jeremiah. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter.
Thompson, H. O. (1996). The Book of Jeremiah: An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow.
Thompson, J. A. (1980). The Book of Jeremiah. New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.: A conservative Christian commentary.

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