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The Theology of the Book of Jeremiah
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The Theology of the Book of Jeremiah by Walter Brueggemann Old Testament Theology. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2007. 213 pp. $18.99. ISBN 978-0-521-69629-5.
THIS BOOK INAUGURATES a new Cambridge Press series, Old Testament Theology, that intends to allow "specialists [to] explore the theological richness of a given book at greater length than is usually possible in the introductions to commentaries or as part of other Old Testament theologies" (p. iii). True to the series' purpose, Walter Brueggemann offers a sustained reflection on the theological claims of the book of Jeremiah.
In the book's first section, Brueggemann reviews critical scholarship to demonstrate how reflection on ...
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