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This chapter’s opening verses introduce a prophecy to Baruch son of Neriah “when he was writing these words in a scroll at Jeremiah’s dictation in the fourth year of Jehoiakim” (1).\u00a0 In terms of strict chronology, this chapter belongs together with chapter 36, which narrates the origins of the Book of Jeremiah. In terms of theme, chapter 45 parallels, to some extent, Jeremiah 51:59\u201364. These verses also refer to the composition of a scroll (of prophecies against Babylon) by Jeremiah, and contain instructions to Seraiah son Neriah, brother of our chapter’s Baruch.<\/span><\/p>\n

Modern scholars suggest that Jeremiah 51:59\u201364 serve as a kind of “colophon,” a closing remark about a book’s composition.\u00a0 These verses, they note, come at the very end of the main body of the Book of Jeremiah as we have it; only chapter 52, a general historical narrative, follows. Chapter 45, with its reference to the composition of the Book of Jeremiah, also resembles a colophon, but is out of place in our version of the Book of Jeremiah. Instead, its proper placement is preserved in the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible.\u00a0 There, indeed, our chapter closes the main body of a version of the Book of Jeremiah quite different from the one before us in Hebrew.<\/span><\/p>\n

Characterizing our chapter and Jeremiah 51:59\u201364 as colophons suggests something further about the composition of the two versions.\u00a0 Colophons often refer to the scribes who composed the preceding text. Thus, the Greek version (and the original Hebrew it translates) ends with a prophecy to Baruch, known to have had a hand in publishing Jeremiah’s prophecies.\u00a0 Our Hebrew version ends with a parallel reference to Baruch’s brother, Seraiah, who might have been responsible for bringing us the Hebrew text we read today.<\/span><\/p>\n

(Se also: Richard C. 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