The Book of Lamentations
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Part of New Cambridge Bible Commentary
- Author: Joshua A. Berman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
- Date Published: July 2023
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108424417
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In this commentary, Joshua Berman considers Lamentations as a literary work that creates meaning for a community in the wake of tragedy through its repudiation of Zion theology. Drawing from studies in collective trauma, his volume is the first study of Lamentations that systematically accounts for the constructed character of the narrator, a pastoral mentor who engages in a series of dialogues with a second constructed character, daughter Zion, who embodies the traumatized community of survivors. In each chapter, the pastoral mentor speaks to a different religious typology and a different sub-community of post-destruction Judeans, working with daughter Zion to reconsider her errant positions and charting for her a positive way forward to reconnecting with the Lord. Providing a systematic approach to the careful structure of each of its chapters, Berman illuminates how biblical writers offered support to their communities in a way that is still relevant and appealing to a therapy-conscious contemporary society.
Read more- Provides a systematic approach to the theology of the book and the careful structure of each of its chapter
- Draws from studies in social psychology of the phenomenon of belief persistence - people's proclivity to passionately cling to, and advocate for, beliefs or attitudes even when the evidence supporting such beliefs is fully invalidated
- Presents the first study of Lamentations that systematically accounts for the constructed character of the narrator
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- Date Published: July 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108424417
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.44kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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