ABSTRACT
Which came first: Jeremiah or his book? This article was provoked when Robert Carroll’s brilliant Jeremiah commentary was removed from the Old Testament Library and substituted with an absolutely indifferent one. Carroll had, in a very pointed way, made it clear that it was the people who collected the material found in the Book of Jeremiah who created this prophet rather than the other way around, making him the spokesperson for a specific group and their ‘eyewitness’ to the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the first temple. But they did not complete their project.
