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The Message of Lamentations (Paperback)
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The Message of Lamentations (Paperback)
Series: Bible Speaks Today
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Discovery Miles 4 220
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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 the whole of Old Testament history, with its
extreme human suffering, devastation of the ancient city, national
humiliation, and the undermining of all that was thought to be
theologically guaranteed like the Davidic monarchy, the city of
Zion, and the temple of the God of Israel. It is out of that
unspeakable pain that Lamentations speaks, in poetry of astonishing
beauty and intricacy, though soaked in tears. If we neglect this
book, 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? Even if these events are recognized and accepted as God's
judgment, has not the flood of brutality and evil gone beyond all
bounds? If anarchy, death and destruction stalk the land, can the
center of Israel's faith in the covenant God of faithfulness and
mercy hold? In this Bible Speaks Today volume, Wright shows that as
Christian readers we must not, and cannot, isolate Lamentations
from the rest of the Bible; and equally, that we should not read
the rest of the Bible without Lamentations. We must still let it
speak for itself, as a book for today.
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