A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Jeremiah, Vol. 2 (ICC)

by William McKane

Publisher:

T&T Clark

, 1986

ISBN: 9780567649645

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Top Highlights

“Nicholson (1986, pp. 183f., 211f.) has asserted that הפרו has the strong sense of ‘abrogated’ which distinguishes it from עבר ‘broke’. The question then is whether הפרו means ‘broke periodically’ or ‘broke finally’. If it is a reference to a history of apostasy, to repeated infractions of the Sinai covenant, as I am inclined to suppose, the first is correct.” (Page 818)

“v. 32 refers to a history of apostasy not just to its climax.” (Page 819)

“If God’s Law is written in the heart (this is the usual exegesis), there can be no conflict between desire and will (God’s will), pleasure and will or affection and will, since love of God with all the heart and soul (Deut 30:6) will issue from this transformation at the core of being. It will amount to an inerrant moral sense (cf. Peake), a ‘knowledge of Yahweh’ which every member of his community will possess.” (Page 820)

“the new thing created by Yahweh is that ‘A woman encircles (תסובב) a man’. תְּסוֹבֵב” (Page 806)

“It is an accepted custom that a man goes after a woman, but now a woman goes after a man, as if to say the children of Israel will return to their God and he will redeem them’” (Page 806)

...his work on the prophet Jeremiah (A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Jeremiah), in two large volumes published in 1986 [...] will perhaps be his most enduring legacy. In these volumes, McKane's skills achieve their ultimate expression: the rigorously high standards of scholarship he set himself and constantly strove to attain; his meticulous assembling of evidence from the ancient versions and the medieval commentaries; his innovative and influential theory of the "rolling canon"; his balanced presentation of different possibilities of interpretation.

—The Independent