Jeremiah (Anchor Bible Series, Vol. 21)
By John Bright.
Description
Jeremiah (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 particularl...
ISBN(s)
0385008236, 9780385008235
