Commentary on Jeremiah (Ancient Christian Texts) - Hardcover

Jerome; Graves, Michael; Hall, Christopher A.; Oden, Thomas C.; Bray, Gerald L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0830829105 ISBN 13: 9780830829101

Publisher: IVP Academic, 2012

Synopsis

Jerome (c. 347-419), one of the West's four doctors of the church, was recognized early on as one of the church's foremost translators, commentators and advocates of Christian asceticism. Skilled in Hebrew and Greek in addition to his native Latin, he was thoroughly familiar with Jewish traditions and brought them to bear on his understanding of the Old Testament. In 405 Jerome completed his Latin translation of the Old Testament, based on the Hebrew text, and not long afterward began to work on commentaries devoted to the major prophets--Daniel (407), Isaiah (408-410), Ezekiel (410-414), culminating with Jeremiah but reaching only through chapter 32 before his death in 419. Throughout the commentary Jerome displays his familiarity with both Hebrew and Greek texts of Jeremiah, often establishing the literal meaning through the Hebrew text and offering a spiritual interpretation that draws on the Septuagint. He frequently interacts with other translations known from Origen's Hexapla. Jerome's extensive education in the classics and Jewish tradition as well as in both Antiochene and Alexandrian exegesis shine through the commentary at every point. Here for the first time Michael Graves supplies readers with a highly readable translation in English, useful textual notes and a helpful introduction.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Ancient Christian Texts is a series of new translations, most of which are here presented in English for the first time. The series provides contemporary readers with the resources they need to study for themselves the key writings of the early church. The texts represented in the series are full-length commentaries or sermon series based on biblical books or extended scriptural passages.

About the Author:

Michael Graves (PhD, Hebrew Union College) is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College in Illinois. Dr. Graves is also the author of Jerome's Hebrew Philology (2007).

About this edition

• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0830829105
• ISBN 13: 9780830829101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Hall Christopher A., Oden Thomas C., Bray Gerald L., Jerome, Graves Michael