'Perhaps There Is Hope': Reading Lamentations as a Polyphony of Pain, Penitence, and Protest

ISBN-13: 9780567658388 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 272 str.

Miriam J. Bier

Opis

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.