When published, this work on the Book of Lamentations opened a new
wave of studies on that much neglected biblical book. After a fresh
translation, followed by acute analyses of the acrostic form and
literary genres, the author develops the two-fold theology of
"doom" and "hope" that reverberates through the five laments
composed during the exile to cope with the fall of Jerusalem.
Created for public performance, the poems artfully alternate the
voices of the poet and the community, personified by turns as a
forlorn widow (Fair Zion) and as an afflicted man (Jacob/Israel).
The book attributes the catastrophe in part to the moral and social
failures of Judah's leadership, but it also finds the enormity of
the suffering beyond moral or theological explanation.
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