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Covenant Minister Authors Jeremiah Commentary

CHICAGO, IL (July 8, 2004) - Adding to this year's growing collection of books from Covenant authors are two new books from Jack R. Lundbom, Covenant minister and Old Testament scholar. Volume II of Lundbom's commentary on Jeremiah (chapters 21-36) was published by Doubleday in March, with Volume III (chapters 37-52) due out in November. They are part of the Anchor Bible Commentary series. Volume I (chapters 1-20) was published in 1999.

In describing Volume II, the publisher wrote, that it is "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 judgment was also the one who gave the remnant people - in oracle and in symbolic action - a promise and a hope, expressed climactically in a new and eternal covenant for future days."

Bob Hubbard, professor of Old Testament at North Park Theological Seminary, called Lundbom's work "truly a magisterial achievement. I've already gained much from it in teaching Jeremiah this year," he said, "and I've only begun to explore its massive contents. It thoroughness, unique investigation of the book's rhetoric, and sane approach to criticism will commend it use for several generations. We lovers of Jeremiah are the better for Lundbom's long labors over those sacred pages."

Lundbom is a graduate of North Park Academy, North Park Jr. College, and North Park Theological Seminary, and an internationally recognized authority on Jeremiah. He is author of Master Painter, a biography of Warner E. Sallman, the Swedish American painter of the famed "Head of Christ." A fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, Lundbom will be at the Albright Institute in Jerusalem next year, according to Craig Anderson, a friend and retired associate superintendent of the Central Conference.

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