Jeremiah is an artifact of terror. . . . Jeremiah is an artifact of hope.

Some thirty years ago William L. Holladay, one of the leading historical-critical scholars of our time, made an intriguing case for reading Jeremiah as a "spokesman out of time." While insisting that the prophet was firmly grounded in "a very particular and unique historical situation,"1 Holladay dared to assert that Jeremiah "speaks to us in [a] . . . more special and direct way than [he did] to his own time''2 Following Holladay's lead, I would suggest that this strange sense of immediacy is even more palpable today. ...

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