Introduction

This series of thirty-one articles by E. L. Ellison, which began to appear in The Evangelical Quarterly in 1959, and spanning a decade, may be somewhat dated, but they remain timeless, as well as rich and full of insights as those who have read Ellison has come to expect. This is more than can be said of many of the more recent studies on Jeremiah.

Born in Krakow, Poland, Henry Leopold Ellison moved with the family to England in the mid-1920s, where the family changed their sirname from Zechhausen to Ellison (their mother's surname) to better assimilate into British society. The son of a Jewish Christian missionary in the Anglican Church, Henry followed his father's footsteps who served as a missionary to the Jews in Europe with the Anglican Church. His decision to receive adult baptism, however, caused his break with the Church of England, after which he became closely associated with the Open Brethren, and a good friend of F. F. Bruce. Ellison held teaching posts in several Bible Colleges in Britain, and is famous especially for his OT expostions. He was called home to the Lord in 1983.