Lamentations: An Introduction and Study Guide (T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the Old Testament)

by Jill Middlemas

Publisher:

T&T Clark

, 2021

Overview

In this guide, Jill Middlemas introduces students to the Book of Lamentations by examining the book's structure and characteristics, covering the latest in biblical scholarship on Lamentations, including historical and interpretive issues, and considering a range of scholarly approaches. In particular, the guide provides students with an introduction to Hebrew poetry as it relates to Lamentations and includes insights from the field of trauma and postcolonial studies.

With suggestions of further reading at the end of each chapter, this guide will be an useful accompaniment to study of Lamentations.

Key Features

• Serves as a guide that seeks to honor different, yet compatible, ways of reacting to, mourning over and expressing disaster, loss, grief and injustice
• Seeks to bring recognition to and acceptance of pain, suffering, and calls for change
• Attempts to inspire new readers to appreciate the beauty of Lamentation's ancient and timeless poetry, as well as its tragic testimonies and calls for righteousness

Contents

• Lamentations as Literature
• The Provenance and Historical Backdrop of Lamentations
• Lamentations in Theology and Trauma Studies

Praise for Lamentations: An Introduction and Study Guide

This beautifully written work bristles with theological insight and exegetical acuity. Students and teachers will appreciate Jill Middlemas’s attention to the text’s poetic artistry, cultural setting and reception history, along with her focus on feminist and post-colonial criticism. A perfect primer for university and seminary classes!

Louis Stulman, University of Findlay, USA

This guide is rich with information, not only on the Book of Lamentations, but also on themes in current biblical interpretation such as poetry, composition, reader response and theology. Jill Middlemas takes her point of departure in the poetry of the book and this leads to a thorough reading of Lamentations as both a work of art and a source of theological reflection for readers.

Else Holt, Aarhus University, Denmark

Product Details

• Title: Lamentations: An Introduction and Study Guide
• Author: Jill Middlemas
• Series: T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the Old Testament
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Pages: 144
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• ISBNs: 9780567696915, 056769691X
• Resource ID: LLS:LMNTTNSNNTRSTGD
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-03-02T22:08:11Z