Joyce / Lipton / Gunn Lamentations Through the Centuries

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-33264-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Bible Commentaries

Covering a rich landscape of literary, theological and culturalcreativity, the authors explore the astonishing variety ofinterpretations inspired by Lamentations, one of theshortest books in the Bible.
* Features a wealth of reactions - covering two and a halfmillennia - to this ancient text's influential andunflinching account of the devastation wreaked by war
* Explores a kaleidoscope of examples ranging from the Dead SeaScrolls; Yehudah Halevy; John Calvin; and composer, Thomas Tallis;through to the startling interpretations of Marc Chagall;contemporary novelist, Cynthia Ozick; and Zimbabwean junksculpture
* Deploys "reception exegesis", a new genre of commentary thatcreatively blends reception history and biblical exegesis
* Offers sensitive treatment of challenging theological andpsychological responses to one of the most disturbing books of theHebrew Bible
* Widely relevant, with nuanced reflections - bothreligious and secular - on human suffering and the disastersof war

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joyce, Paul M.

Lipton, Diana

Gunn, David M.

Sawyer, John F. A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors' Preface viii
Abbreviations x
List of Figures xii
Introduction 1
COMMENTARY 26
Afterword 193
Bibliography 196
Author Index 206
Subject Index 209

Über Autor(innen)

Paul M. Joyce holds the Samuel Davidson Chair in OldTestament/ Hebrew Bible at King's College London. He is the authorof Ezekiel: A Commentary (2007), and Divine Initiative and HumanResponse in Ezekiel (1989), and is co-editor of AfterEzekiel: Essays on the Reception of a Difficult Prophet (withAndrew Mein, 2011), and Crossing the Boundaries: Essays inBiblical Interpretation in Honour of Michael D.Goulder (withStanley E. Porter and David E. Orton, 1994).
Diana Lipton teaches at Tel Aviv University, Israel, andThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Rothberg InternationalSchool. She has been a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, aswell as Reader in Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies at King'sCollege 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 BiblicalTales (2008), and is co-editor of Feminism and Theology(with Janet Martin Soskice, 2003) and Studies on the Text andVersions of the Hebrew Bible in Honour of Robert Gordon (withGeoffrey Kahn, 2011).