
Lamentations Through the Centuries
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 5. April 2013
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-631-21978-1 (ISBN)
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Description
Covering a rich landscape of literary, theological and cultural creativity, the authors explore the astonishing variety of interpretations inspired by Lamentations, one of the shortest books in the Bible.
* Features a wealth of reactions - covering two and a half millennia - to this ancient text's influential and unflinching account of the devastation wreaked by war
* Explores a kaleidoscope of examples ranging from the Dead Sea Scrolls; Yehudah Halevy; John Calvin; and composer, Thomas Tallis; through to the startling interpretations of Marc Chagall; contemporary novelist, Cynthia Ozick; and Zimbabwean junk sculpture
* Deploys "reception exegesis", a new genre of commentary that creatively blends reception history and biblical exegesis
* Offers sensitive treatment of challenging theological and psychological responses to one of the most disturbing books of the Hebrew Bible
* Widely relevant, with nuanced reflections - both religious and secular - on human suffering and the disasters of war
Reviews / Votes
"I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is informative, thought-provoking, and -despite being a commentary - holds the reader's attention. It made me appreciateLamentations in a new way. To be recommended." (The Swedish Exegetical Yearbook 2014, 1 October 2014)More details
Product info
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 23.4 cm
Width: 15.9 cm
Thickness: 1.7 cm
Weight
444 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-21978-1 (9780631219781)
Schweitzer Classification
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Persons
Paul M. Joyce holds the Samuel Davidson Chair in Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible at King's College London. He is the author of Ezekiel: A Commentary (2007), and Divine Initiative and Human Response in Ezekiel (1989), and is co-editor of After Ezekiel: Essays on the Reception of a Difficult Prophet (with Andrew Mein, 2011), and Crossing the Boundaries: Essays in Biblical Interpretation in Honour of Michael D.Goulder (with Stanley E. Porter and David E. Orton, 1994).
Diana Lipton teaches at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Rothberg International School. She has been a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, as well as Reader in Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies at King's College London. She is the author of Revisions of the Night: Politics and Promises in the Patriarchal Dreams of Genesis (1999) and Longing for Egypt and Other Unexpected Biblical Tales (2008), and is co-editor of Feminism and Theology (with Janet Martin Soskice, 2003) and Studies on the Text and Versions of the Hebrew Bible in Honour of Robert Gordon (with Geoffrey Kahn, 2011).
Author
King's College London, U
Tel Aviv University & The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Rothberg International School, Israel
Content
Series Editors' Preface viii
Abbreviations x
List of Figures xii
Introduction 1
COMMENTARY 26
Afterword 193
Bibliography 196
Author Index 206
Subject Index 209