Jeremiah: His Life and Times

Jeremiah is one of the central figures of an exciting period which has to be reconstructed by a combined effort of criticism and imagination. It is nearly twenty years since I first began to prepare for a commentary Jeremiah, and since then the book and its author have retained an interest for me. The Exposition in the “Pulpit Commentary” (1883-1885) is a most fragmentary realization of my original plan, and I was glad to take up the pen once more. In the summer of 1887 I preached a course of sermons Jeremiah in Rochester Cathedral, similar to a course which I have printed on Elijah. These sermons are the gems of the present volume.

- From the Preface

The Reverend Professor T. K. Cheyne (1841-1915) served as Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, from 1868-82 and as Oriel Professor of Interpretation of Scripture at the University of Oxford from 1885-1908.
He was elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy in 1904. His other publications include 'Jewish Religious Life After the Exile', 1898; 'The Origin and Religious Contents of the Psalter', 1891; 'Traditions and Beliefs of Ancient Israel', 1907; and he co-edited the 'Encyclopaedia Biblica', (4 volumes) 1899-1903.