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Two items in this chapter bear directly on the greater question of how prophecies were recorded and how biblical books came into existence.<\/span><\/p>\n

In v. 17, the courtiers asked Baruch, \u201cTell us how you wrote down all these words that he spoke.\u201d He replied: \u201cHe [Jeremiah] himself recited all those words to me, and I would write them down in the scroll in ink\u201d (18). Shadal* explained that their question was intended to discover whether \u201che spoke to you in generalities and you wrote the scroll on your own recognizance.\u201d His answer was, \u201cI wrote the words down immediately upon his dictation; there was no time for me to alter anything.\u201d While Jeremiah is the only prophet to have explicitly employed a scribe, it would not be unreasonable to assume that this was standard procedure. Certainly, the sheer bulk of text in such books as Isaiah and Ezekiel argues for such a practice.<\/span><\/p>\n

Towards the end of the chapter, we learn that after the king had the original scroll torn up and burned, God instructed Jeremiah to rewrite it (28). \u201cSo Jeremiah got another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah. And at Jeremiah\u2019s dictation, he wrote in it the whole text of the scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah had burned; and more of the like was added\u201d (32). Rashi (borrowing from the Midrash Eikhah Rabbah) set the tone for the traditional exegesis of this verse: He identified the original scroll with the three chapters of the Book of Lamentations that consist of single alphabetic acrostics (cpts. 1,2,4) and the \u201cmore of the like\u201d with the triple alphabetic acrostic (chapter 3).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

*For an explanation of our objectives in studying Shadal\u2019s commentary, <\/span>see our introduction<\/span><\/a> in Jeremiah chapter 1.<\/span><\/p>\n

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