Lamentations And The Tears Of The World

Author : Kathleen M. O'Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781570753992
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lamentations and the Tears of the World written by Kathleen M. O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the book of Lamentations and its meaning for faith and ministry today. The five poems that comprise Lamentations tell of the community's pain in the aftermath of Jerusalem's destruction.

Author : Kathleen H. O'Connor,
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608334449
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lamentations and the Tears of the World written by Kathleen H. O'Connor, and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robin A. Parry
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802827144
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lamentations (THOTC) written by Robin A. Parry and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume Robin Parry not only builds on traditional scholarship to interpret the book of Lamentations within its ancient context but also ventures further, exploring how the book can function as Christian Scripture. Parry provides the first systematic attempt to read Lamentations in light of the cross and resurrection. --from publisher description

Author : Kathleen M. O'Connor
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451412290
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jeremiah written by Kathleen M. O'Connor and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whether dealing with collective catastrophe or intimate trauma, recovering from emotional and physical hurt is hard. Kathleen O'Connor shows that although Jeremiah's emotionally wrought language can aggravate readers' memories of pain, it also documents the ways an ancient community, and the prophet personally, sought to restore their collapsed social world. Both prophet and book provide a traumatized community language to articulate disaster; move self-understanding from delusional security to identity as survivors; constitute individuals as responsible moral agents; portray God as equally afflicted by disaster; and invite a reconstruction of reality" -- Publisher description.

Author : Nancy C. Lee
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589833570
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lamentations in Ancient and Contemporary Cultural Contexts written by Nancy C. Lee and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2008 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal tragedy and communal catastrophe up to the present day are universal human experiences that call forth lament. Lament singers--from the most ancient civilizations to traditional oral poets to the biblical psalmists and poets of Lamentations to popular singers across the globe--have always raised the cry of human suffering, giving voice to the voiceless, illuminating injustice, or pleading for divine help. This volume gathers an international collection of essays on biblical lament and Lamentations, illuminating their genres, artistry, purposes, and significant place in the history and theologies of ancient Israel. It also explores lament across cultures, both those influenced by biblical traditions and those not, as the practices of composition, performance, and interpretation of life's suffering continue to shed light on our knowledge of biblical lament. --From publisher's description.

Author : Adele Berlin
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 0664229743
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lamentations written by Adele Berlin and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this accessible volume, Adele Berlin explicates the five poems of Lamentations and builds a convincing case for Lamentations' immense power to address violence and grief. The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.

Author : Christopher J.H. Wright
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1514006405
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Message of Lamentations written by Christopher J.H. Wright and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 587 BC is the likely setting for the book of Lamentations. This was the most traumatic event in Old Testament history, as Israel faced extreme human suffering, the destruction of the ancient city, national humiliation, and the undermining of all that was thought to be divinely guaranteed, such as the Davidic monarchy, the city of Zion, and the very temple of their God. It is out of such unspeakable pain that Lamentations speaks, through poetry of astonishing beauty and intricacy, although soaked in tears. If we neglect this book of the Bible, says Chris Wright, we miss the challenge and reward of wrestling with the massive theological issues that permeate it. How can suffering be endured alongside faith in an all-loving, good God? If death and destruction stalk the land, can Israel's faith in the covenant God of faithfulness and mercy be sustained? Through this commentary, Wright shows that we must not isolate Lamentations from the rest of the Bible, nor should we read the rest of the Bible without Lamentations. It is a crucial part of the narrative that still has many messages for us to learn from today. Part of the beloved Bible Speaks Today series, The Message of Lamentations offers an insightful, readable exposition of the biblical text and thought-provoking discussion of how its meaning relates to contemporary life. Used by students and teachers around the world, the Bible Speaks Today commentaries are ideal for those studying or preaching the Bible and anyone who wants to delve deeper into the text. This revised edition of a classic volume features lightly updated language and a new interior design.

Author : Harvey Cox
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN 13 : 1611641632
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lamentations and Song of Songs written by Harvey Cox and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest volume in the popular Belief series considers two very different types of biblical writings and two very timely subjects—violence and sex within the context of Scripture. Well-known theologian Harvey Cox draws on a wide array of sources in his commentary on Lamentations— including poetry, novels, films, paintings, and photography—to offer a contemporary theological reading that is provocative and sure to stir numerous theological reflections and responses. The biblical book of Song of Songs has historically been seen as a book pointing to Christ's love for the church and has been interpreted in allegorical ways. Yet, it is unique in the canon for its use of erotic poetry, celebrating the human body and human love in graphic terms. Author Stephanie Paulsell suggests that the Song can still have profound meaning for us, teaching us "to love not only what we can see shining on the surface but also those depths of the other which are out of our reach."

Author : David R. Slavitt
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801876907
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Lamentations written by David R. Slavitt and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique translation of the Old Testament book, with reflections on Judaism’s mournful history, “not only allows but demands rereading” (Pleiades). Distinguished poet David R. Slavitt here provides a translation of and meditation upon the Book of Lamentations, the biblical account of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 587 B.C., on the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av—Tish’a b’Av. (Six centuries later the Romans destroyed the second Temple on the same day.) Most of the Jewish population was deported to Babylon, and the ensuing period came to be known as the Babylonian Captivity. According to tradition, the Book of Lamentations was written in response to this political, social, and religious crisis. The five poems composing the book express Israel’s sorrow, brokenness, and bewilderment before God. Tish’a b’Av is the day on which observant Jews fast and pray. And mourn. As Slavitt observes in his meditation: “It is forbidden on Tish’a b’Av even to study the Torah, except for the Book of Job and the Book of Lamentations. This is the day on which we grieve for every terrible thing that happens in this world. It is the worst day of the year.” Slavitt’s meditation provides a context for reading the scriptural text. Cast in the same style as the Hebrew poetry, his meditation recounts how sorrow and catastrophe have characterized so much of the history of the Jewish people, from their enslavement in Egypt to the Holocaust of Nazi Germany. Few translations of this remarkable book of the Bible attempt to reproduce in English, as Slavitt does here, the Hebrew acrostics. In the original, each verse begins with a different letter of the Hebrew alphabet in sequential order; Slavitt elegantly reproduces this effect using the first 22 letters of the English alphabet. More than a structural or mnemonic device, Slavitt argues, the acrostics are “a serious assertion that the language itself is speaking, that the speech is inspired, and that there is, beyond all the disaster and pain the book recounts, an intricacy and an orderly coherence.”

Author : Leslie C. Allen
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 0801039606
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Liturgy of Grief written by Leslie C. Allen and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this commentary on Lamentations, a respected Old Testament scholar and volunteer hospital chaplain presents a biblical model for helping those coping with grief.