The Book of Lamentations

The Book of Lamentations
ISBN-10
146746404X
ISBN-13
9781467464048
Series
The Book of Lamentations
Category
Religion
Pages
207
Language
English
Published
2022-02-01
Publisher
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Author
John Goldingay

Description

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 comprised 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 from the Masoretic text along with verse-by-verse commentary.

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