Lamentations: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on (International Critical Commentary | ICC)

by Robert Salters

Publisher:

T&T Clark

, 2010

Overview

R. B. Salters, honorary reader in Hebrew at the University of St Andrews provides a masterful commentary on Lamentations, as befits this prestigious commentary series.

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The loss of statehood was in itself momentous but with it came the loss of the Davidic line” (Page 27)

“vv. 1–11 is followed by the victim’s own story in vv. 12–22 in much the same way as a television or radio reporter from” (Page 31)

“The first section is mostly in the third person, the second mostly in the first person” (Page 30)

“The most likely possibility is that the acrostic is simply an artistic device” (Page 20)

Product Details

• Title: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Lamentations
• Author: Robert Salters
• Series: International Critical Commentary
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Print Publication Date: 2010
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 416
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Lamentations › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780567481672, 0567481670
• Resource ID: LLS:ICC_25LA
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:03:44Z

About Robert Salters

R. B. Salters is honorary reader in Hebrew at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Jonah and Lamentations in the Sheffield Old Testament Guides.