Jeremiah: Prophet Or Poet?

“To countless generations of Bible readers, Jeremiah has been a prophet – indeed, the Hebrew prophet par excellence, his very name a synonym for warning, chastising, and exhorting. To [David] Rosenberg, however, the person (or people) who wrote this book is primarily a poet, whose ‘main form is the prophet’s oracle’ – much as we might say that Shakespeare’s main form was the sonnet.”