‘Perhaps There Is Hope’: Reading Lamentations as a Polyphony of Pain, Penitence, and Protest
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Overview
Bier proposes here a strong new understanding of the Book of Lamentations, drawing on Bakhtinian ideas of multiple voices to analyse the poetic speaking voices within the text; examining their theological perspectives, and nuancing the interaction between them. Bier scrutinises interpretations of Lamentations, distinguishing between exegesis that reads Lamentations as a theodicy, in defense of God, and those that read it as an anti-theodicy, in defense of Zion. Rather than reductively adopting either of these approaches, this book advocates a dialogic approach to Lamentations, reading to hear the full polyphony of pain, penitence, and protest.
- Title: ‘Perhaps There Is Hope’: Reading Lamentations as a Polyphony of Pain, Penitence, and Protest
- Author: Miriam J. Bier
- Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
- Volume: 603
- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 249
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. O.T. Lamentations › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. O.T. Lamentations › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9780567672155, 9780567658388, 9780567658371, 0567658384, 0567658376, 0567672158
- Resource ID: LLS:PRHPSTHRPNPRTST
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-30T21:06:54Z