Book of Lamentations

"Other commentaries see Lamentations' theological positions as randomly expressed. In this commentary, we discover how Lamentations' narrator, a pastoral mentor, engages daughter Zion in a series of discussions in a systematic process akin to therapy, charting for her a way forward to reconnecting with the LORD"--

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; I. Plotting a path for Zion's spiritual rehabilitation; II. Dispelling delusions I: the Lord and His love for Zion; III. Redirecting Zion's anger: the Geber as Model; IV. Dispelling delusions II: Zion and her social structures; V. Purging prayer of Zion theology.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Joshua Berman is a professor in the Department of Bible at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is the author of Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought (Oxford University Press, 2011), which was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist in Scholarship; and Inconsistency in the Torah: Ancient Literary Convention and the Limits of Source Criticism (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Zusammenfassung

Other commentaries see Lamentations' theological positions as randomly expressed. In this commentary, we discover how Lamentations' narrator, a pastoral mentor, engages daughter Zion in a series of discussions in a systematic process akin to therapy, charting for her a way forward to reconnecting with the Lord.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Joshua A Berman, Joshua A. Berman, Joshua A. (Bar-Ilan University Berman
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.03.2023
• EAN: 9781108424417
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42441-7
• Seiten: 300
• Serie: New Cambridge Bible Commentary
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Judentum; BIBLES / General, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Judaism / Talmud, RELIGION / Judaism / Theology, Theology, Christian theology, New Testaments, Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings, Judaism: Sacred Texts, Judaism: theology, Old Testaments