page_title: Book of Jeremiah
section_title: Composition
hierarchical_section_title: Book of Jeremiah / Composition
caption_attribution_description: English: A high resolution scan of the Aleppo Codex. This file contains the Book of Jeremiah (the sixth book in Nevi'im). Unfortunately the high-resolution file only contains about a dozen pages from the initial part of Jeremiah.
context_page_description: The Book of Jeremiah is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, and the second of the Prophets in the Christian Old Testament. The superscription at chapter Jeremiah 1:1–3 identifies the book as "the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah". Of all the prophets, Jeremiah comes through most clearly as a person, ruminating to his scribe Baruch about his role as a servant of God with little good news for his audience. His book is intended as a message to the Jews in exile in Babylon, explaining the disaster of exile as God's response to Israel's pagan worship: the people, says Jeremiah, are like an unfaithful wife and rebellious children, their infidelity and rebelliousness made judgment inevitable, although restoration and a new covenant are foreshadowed. Authentic oracles of Jeremiah are probably to be found in the poetic sections of chapters 1–25, but the book as a whole has been heavily edited and added to by the prophet's followers and later generations of Deuteronomists. It has come down in two distinct though related versions, one in Hebrew, the other known from a Greek translation.
caption: A high resolution scan of the Aleppo Codex containing the Book of Jeremiah (the sixth book in Nevi'im).
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