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Lamentations : a Commentary / Adele Berlin.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Old Testament libraryPublisher: Louisville, KY : Westminster John Knox Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Edition: First editionDescription: xxvi, 135 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0664218490
  • 9780664218492
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 224.3077 BER 21
LOC classification:
  • BS1535.53 .B47 2002
Contents:
I. Introduction -- 1. The poetry of Lamentations -- 2. Gender and suffering -- Excursus 1: Bat-siyyon, the personified Zion -- Excursus 2: Jerusalem's residents: A sociological profile -- 3. Mourning as a religious concept -- 4. The theology of destruction and exile -- The paradigm of purity -- The political paradigm -- 5. Lamentations in literary context -- The biblical context: Qinah, communal lament, and Jerusalem lament -- The Mesopotamian context -- 6. Authorship -- 7. Date and purpose -- 8. lamentations at Qumran.
II. Translation and commentary -- Lamentations 1:1-22: Mourning and shame -- Lamentations 2:1-22: Anger -- Lamentations 3:1-66: Exile -- Lamentations 4:1-22: Degradation -- Lamentations 5:1-22: Prayer.
Review: "This commentary on Lamentations furnishes a fresh translation and discusses questions of historical background and literary architecture before providing a theologically sensitive exposition of the text."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

I. Introduction -- 1. The poetry of Lamentations -- 2. Gender and suffering -- Excursus 1: Bat-siyyon, the personified Zion -- Excursus 2: Jerusalem's residents: A sociological profile -- 3. Mourning as a religious concept -- 4. The theology of destruction and exile -- The paradigm of purity -- The political paradigm -- 5. Lamentations in literary context -- The biblical context: Qinah, communal lament, and Jerusalem lament -- The Mesopotamian context -- 6. Authorship -- 7. Date and purpose -- 8. lamentations at Qumran.

II. Translation and commentary -- Lamentations 1:1-22: Mourning and shame -- Lamentations 2:1-22: Anger -- Lamentations 3:1-66: Exile -- Lamentations 4:1-22: Degradation -- Lamentations 5:1-22: Prayer.

"This commentary on Lamentations furnishes a fresh translation and discusses questions of historical background and literary architecture before providing a theologically sensitive exposition of the text."--BOOK JACKET.

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