Talk:Book of Jeremiah/Archive 1

The Prophet Jeremiah
The beginning of the section on "The Prophet Jeremiah" begins with this text: "The Prophet Jeremiah is the book that describes was a son of a priest from Anatot in the land of Benjamin, who lived in the last years of the Kingdom of Judah [...]"

There's obviously something wrong with this; it's not even a grammatical sentence. Meaningwise, too, I assume it should say that the Prophet Jeremiah was/is said to have been a person, not a book. I'm not sure how best to fix it though. 68.252.44.110 (talk) 13:48, 22 February 2008 (UTC)


 * "According to" is adequate attribution. WP:NPOV prohibits taking a position on which points of view editors believe are correct, so once viewpoints are appropriately attributed deprecatory statements like "said to" shouldn't be used. Otherwise we'd have to say "said to" for everything. If you think the statement can be simplified, change it. Best, --Shirahadasha (talk) 14:36, 22 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks, that looks much better. (And thanks also for the information about how to handle such cases.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Steorra (talk • contribs) 05:15, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Hebrew Meaning
יִרְמְיָהוּ Yirməyāhū - the "yahu"part refers to God...(For example, http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/meaning_of_Netanyahu.html states that Netanyahu is derived from "Gift of God")

Something should be added (with reference if possible) indicating the Hebrew rootmeaning of "Yirmiyahu" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.84.179.9 (talk) 19:37, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

His buying a field
I added this small section in the 'Prophetic Acts' section. It seems important because centuries later the blood-money Judas got for betraying Jesus was also used to purchase a field. Here the symbolism is very different tho, as is the price - 17 silver shekels in Jeremiah; 40 pieces of silver in the NT.  Smokey TheCat  11:41, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Npov
Conservative scholars argue only Baruch edited Jeremiah. There is no consensus on later edits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.131.161.184 (talk) 01:14, 4 November 2015 (UTC)