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The book of Lamentations / John Goldingay.

By: Series: New international commentary on the Old TestamentPublisher: Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2022Description: xix, 228 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780802825421
  • 0802825427
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Contents:
Text and commentary. Lamentations 1 : "Is there pain like my pain?" -- Lamentations 2 : "He poured out his wrath like fire" -- Lamentations 3 : "Perhaps there is hope" -- Lamentations 4 : "He lit a fire in Zion" -- Lamentations 5 : "Be mindful, Yahweh".
Summary: "The book of Lamentations is one of the most vivid representations of grief and trauma in the Hebrew Bible. Written in the wake of the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonian Empire, it is composed of five poems of twenty-two stanzas each, in a manner of tight formal unity unparalleled by any other work in the Scriptures. In this volume, widely respected Old Testament scholar John Goldingay analyzes these and other aspects of Lamentations while keeping a constant eye on the book's meaning and use as Christian Scripture. After a thorough introduction that explores matters of background, composition, and theology, Goldingay provides an original translation of the book along with verse-by-verse commentary"--Page 2 of book jacket.
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Main Collection John Kinder Theological Library BS1535.53 GOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available A42376950

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Text and commentary. Lamentations 1 : "Is there pain like my pain?" -- Lamentations 2 : "He poured out his wrath like fire" -- Lamentations 3 : "Perhaps there is hope" -- Lamentations 4 : "He lit a fire in Zion" -- Lamentations 5 : "Be mindful, Yahweh".

"The book of Lamentations is one of the most vivid representations of grief and trauma in the Hebrew Bible. Written in the wake of the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonian Empire, it is composed of five poems of twenty-two stanzas each, in a manner of tight formal unity unparalleled by any other work in the Scriptures. In this volume, widely respected Old Testament scholar John Goldingay analyzes these and other aspects of Lamentations while keeping a constant eye on the book's meaning and use as Christian Scripture. After a thorough introduction that explores matters of background, composition, and theology, Goldingay provides an original translation of the book along with verse-by-verse commentary"--Page 2 of book jacket.

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