Surviving Lamentations: Catastrophe, Lament, and Protest in the Afterlife of a Biblical Book
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Most contemporary interpretations of the biblical book of Lamentations focus on the figure of the "suffering man" as a role model for submission in the face of God's punishment for sin. Yet such a model offers small consolation to survivors of the Holocaust or other mass atrocities and also ignores chapters 1 and 2 of Lamentations, in which the personification of Zion laments her sufferings and demands a response on behalf of her dying children. In...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0226481905
ISBN13:9780226481906
Release Date:July 2000
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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