Aug. 11, 2005, Findlay, Ohio – Dr. Louis Stulman, professor of religious studies at The University of Findlay, has written a new book on the Prophet Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible.

The book, “The Abingdon Old Testament Commentary on Jeremiah,” is part of a series of commentaries on the Old Testament published by Abingdon Press.

According to Stulman, while Jeremiah is one of the most difficult books in the Bible to read, it is actually a haunting, artistic tapestry that deals with a nation’s attempt to come to terms with the horrors of war, military occupation, and forced deportation. Without this prophetic corpus, the earliest Jewish communities in Babylon and Palestine may not have survived, and the face of today’s world would have been far different.

According to Stulman, the book of Jeremiah has particular relevance for the state of current world affairs. “The remarkable thing about Jeremiah and the other Old Testament prophets is that even though they spoke more than 2,500 years ago, their vision of social justice and call for compassion, especially towards the poor and disenfranchised, has endured the test of time. They still, in large measure, guide our understanding of the just society,” Stulman reflected.

The book is Stulman’s fifth on the prophet Jeremiah, and his sixth overall. Other books are “Inspired Speech: Prophecy in the Ancient Near East. Essays in Honor of Herbert B. Huffmon” (with John Kaltner, eds.), “Order Amid Chaos: Jeremiah as Symbolic Tapestry,” “Troubling Jeremiah” (with Pete Diamond and Kathleen O’Connor, eds.) and “The Other Text of Jeremiah.”

“The Abingdon Old Testament Commentary on Jeremiah” is available for purchase on Amazon.com or Cokesbury.com.

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