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This book is a collection of sermons preached at home and abroad, intended mainly for a lay audience, which presents teachings and applications of biblical texts from both the Old and New Testaments. It builds around the theme of the Christian life being a walk with a hidden and revealed God, a walk requiring understanding, a walk in which one remains faithful, a walk that has developmental stages, and a walk requiring wisdom.

Stirring words of the most outspoken of the Hebrew prophets are reexamined in this concluding volume of the esteemed Anchor Bible Commentary on Jeremiah. This final book of the three-volume Anchor Bible Commentary gives us translation and commentary on the concluding sixteen chapters of Jeremiah. Here, during Judah's darkest days, when nationhoo..

This second book of the three-volume Anchor Bible Commentary offers an astute translation and commentary on the middle sixteen chapters of Jeremiah. Important themes in the present volume include injustice within Judah's royal house, sexual immorality among the clergy, and true versus false prophecy. Yet the prophet who thundered Yahweh's judgme.

This book seeks to place before a broad audience essays on Jeremiah and the book of Jeremiah. A poem featuring Jeremiah is also included. There are technical essays on text criticism, form criticism, and rhetorical criticism; scholarly articles on the scribes who figure in the Jeremiah tradition; and more popular lectures given to beginning students and lay audiences on this important prophet in ancient Israel. Also included is an essay on how the author went about writing his three-volume Jeremiah for the Anchor Bible commentary series. These thirteen essays are collected to be read with profit by scholars, beginning and advanced students, adults in Bible study classes, and people anywhere who want an introduction to important issues in the study of Jeremiah and the book bearing his name. If these aims are realized, the book will have achieved its goal.""Jack Lundbom''s long-time attention to the rhetoric of this prophet is unmatched in scholarly literature and provides a fresh approach to the meaning of the final form of the text. He also defends a new understanding of the shorter text of Jeremiah known from the Septuagint and from some of the Dead Sea Scrolls that deserves to be debated at the highest levels. This book also applies the insights of Jeremiah to Christian life today.""--Ralph W. Klein, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago""Jack Lundbom is an expert in Jeremiah studies. More than twenty-five years of his research on this prophet come alive in this new book, a collection of articles on important topics, like the rhetoric of the book of Jeremiah, the new covenant, and the figure of Jeremiah''s confident Baruch. Lundbom''s essays cover a wide horizon, ranging from questions regarding textual criticism to his experiences writing the Anchor Bible commentary.""--Georg Fischer, SJ, University of Innsbruck, Austria""Jack Lundbom has been writing groundbreaking studies of Jeremiah since the 1970s, climaxing with his massive Anchor Bible commentary. These essays are the perfect way into his lifetime''s work. They display his distinctive approach to the variant texts of Jeremiah, his insights into the scribes who crafted the book, the method of rhetorical criticism he applies so fruitfully in his commentary, and not least some central topics in Jeremiah''s teaching.""--Graham Davies, University of Cambridge""Jeremiah Essays grants unusual access to the background, perspective, and process of his major, three-volume commentary on Jeremiah. These essays reveal Lundbom as the mature, wide-ranging scholar and author he is in his own right. . . . This is must reading for any serious student of Jeremiah.""--Marvin L. Chaney, San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological UnionJack Lundbom is currently Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois. He is author of Jeremiah: A Study in Ancient Hebrew Rhetoric (1975; 1997), a three-volume Jeremiah in the Anchor Bible commentary series (1999; 2004), and a two-volume Deuteronomy commentary (2012).

Millions of people recognize the religious painting know as Head of Christ, of which an estimated five hundred million prints have been sold. Very few, however, know the artist, Warner E. Sallmann. Sallman's lack of notoriety in professional art circles can be explained by the fact that he made little or no attempt to put himself forward as a Chicago or even a Swedish American artist. He had no exhibitions of his works, and his public life consisted largely of appearances before church and community groups to do chalk drawings. More important was his attitude regarding personal fame. Sallman let the Christ he painted be in the foreground, while the artist remained in the background. ""The time has come,"" argues Jack Lundbom, ""for a broader public to know the man who stands behind the painting and the other artwork bearing the Sallman signature.""Master Painter is a fascinating story of a gifted man with humble beginnings who overcame disappointment, ill health, and personal limitations in order to live out a vision: that his art serve not only for the enjoyment of humankind, but the practical end of instructing persons in the ways of God. Readers who know the art can now know the artist. It is a story eminently worth telling and one a broad public will be interested to know.""This book is long overdue and most welcome. Warner Sallman's images of Christ have brought inspiration to millions of people around the world throughout most of the twentieth century, yet only now do we finally have an authoritative treatment of his life and work. Lundbom has compiled a thorough review of Sallman's body of work, set in both personal and professional context. His descriptions of the images are rich in detail, and he includes brief stories of the purposes of the artist at work. . . . But perhaps most important, Lundbom shows us the painter as a humble and committed man of faith who lived, in his son Jim's words, a 'portrait of a godly life through the artistry of living.' Sallman was above all a servant of his Lord, placing at his service the gift he had been given. . . . Master Painter is the story of a man for whom all the lines of his life and his work led to Christ, and we are indebted to Jack Lundbom for recording that legacy.""--Glen R. Palmberg, President, The Evangelical Covenant ChurchJack R. Lundbom is currently Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois, and is an ordained Evangelical Covenant Church Minister.

Description:This study continues the effort to map out an early career for Jeremiah. There exists an abundance of background material: chronological notices, historical and biographical reports, and a collection of oracles and prophetic utterances of other descriptions, as well as a wealth of relevant non-biblical texts. This book describes both the traditional and nontraditional views of Jeremiah, and then presents the view that Jeremiah''s career begins not before, nor after, but at the height of the Josianic reform, that is, in 622 BC.About the Contributor(s):Jack Lundbom is currently Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois. He is author of Jeremiah: A Study in Ancient Hebrew Rhetoric (1975; 1997), the three-volume Jeremiah in the Anchor Bible Commentary series (1999; 2004), and Jeremiah among the Prophets (Cascade Books, forthcoming).