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The New International Biblical Commentary (NIBC) offers the best of contemporary scholarship in a format useful both for general readers and serious students.

Based on the widely used New International Version translation, the NIBC presents careful section-by-section exposition with key terms and phrases highlighted and all Hebrew transliterated. A separate section of notes at the close of each chapter provides additional textual and technical comments. Each commentary also includes a selected bibliography as well as Scripture and subject indexes.

“Longman has added another fine commentary to his credit with this volume in the NIBC series. The complexity and sheer volume of Jeremiah–Lamentations are well known, but Longman’s presentation controls the material admirably, while also producing an extremely accessible, manageable commentary.”
—Pete Enns, Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Hermeneutics, Westminster Theological Seminary

“Tremper Longman''''s work is a thoughtful guide that brings readers along almost like a companion in conversation. When reading Longman one is given access to several contexts for an informed understanding. The historical contexts impacting Jeremiah and Lamentations are discussed, the literary contexts that shape the forms of expression are explicated, and the canonical context in which the books are rooted is frequently noted. Taken together, these assist the reader in coming to grips with two Scriptural works, and at the same time, being grasped by them.”
—J. Andrew Dearman, Professor of Old Testament, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Reviews

“The complexities of the book of Jeremiah are navigated in this commentary with ease and clarity. This is a fine addition to an important commentary series. The fundamental questions of time and place of composition, genre, and literary style are treated in the Introduction. A section-by-section commentary follows. Though Lamentations is credited to Jeremiah, Longman agrees with those scholars who maintain that such authorship is possible, though not probable. When discussing the acrostic form of the laments that comprise that second biblical book he points to the ease in recognizing the form but the difficulty in understanding its rationale. This study will prove to be a useful resource in the study of two very important biblical books.”
—The Bible Today

Tremper Longman III is Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at Westmont College. He is a highly respected author of many books on the Bible, including An Introduction to the Old Testament, How to Read Proverbs, and Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs.

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