Hebrew prophet who ministered during the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem (587 BCE) and proclaimed a new covenant written on the heart — internal rather than external law.
The New Covenant (Jeremiah 31): a covenant written on the heart, not stone tablets — an inward transformation rather than external observance. Deeply personal confessions (the 'Confessions of Jeremiah') make his book the most psychologically intimate in the Hebrew Bible. Lamentations: the poetic expression of Israel's desolation.
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