Thinking Through Jeremiah

Jeremiah is one of the most admirable characters appearing on the pages of God's book. Few others, especially in the Old Testament, were as Christ-like as Jeremiah. In fact, when Jesus came, some of his contemporaries thought that he was Jeremiah reincarnated. Yet many Bible students today know less about him than about a host of other Old Testament heroes. One who turns to commentaries for help will find that many of them are filled with complex discussions of strange Hebrew words and consideration of technical, critical questions with which most of us are totally unconcerned. Wading through all of this tends to obscure the personality of the prophet. A serious Bible student wishing to know Jeremiah and to understand his character, his preaching and his times will be grateful for L. A. Mott's Thinking Through Jeremiah. As in other of Mott's works, a logical outline provides a simple guide to the text itself, and brings to light what otherwise might be overlooked in a casual reading. (Excerpted from Foreword by Sewell Hall)