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29:1 \u201cAnd these are the words of the missive that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the elders of the exiles and to the priests and to the prophets and to all the people whom Nebuchadrezzar had exiled from Jerusalem to Babylonia.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Although the Hebrew <\/span>sefer<\/span><\/i> often has the sense of \u201cbook,\u201d it can designate anything set down in writing on a scroll. In this instance it clearly refers to a letter, but it is a communication of public and prophetic import, hence the more formal translation choice of \u201cmissive.\u201d But what is Jeremiah doing in this sending of missives to the exiles in Babylonia? One might think that he has enough on his hands with a contentious populace and a hostile king in Judah. This entire episode must be read in the context of Jeremiah\u2019s confrontation with the false prophet Hananiah, recorded in the previous chapter. For Jeremiah, everything in his prophetic mission is at stake in distinguishing between true and false prophecy. Hananiah had predicted that the exiles would return to their land in just two years. One infers that he had counterparts in Babylonia itself who were deluding the people with similar rosy predictions. Against this Jeremiah wants to make it perfectly clear to the exiles that they will have a long residence in Babylonia before any return can take place (verses 5-7).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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