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In this commentary, Joshua Berman considers Lamentations as a
literary work that creates meaning for a community in the wake of
tragedy through its repudiation of Zion theology. Drawing from
studies in collective trauma, his volume is the first study of
Lamentations that systematically accounts for the constructed
character of the narrator, a pastoral mentor who engages in a
series of dialogues with a second constructed character, daughter
Zion, who embodies the traumatized community of survivors. In each
chapter, the pastoral mentor speaks to a different religious
typology and a different sub-community of post-destruction Judeans,
working with daughter Zion to reconsider her errant positions and
charting for her a positive way forward to reconnecting with the
Lord. Providing a systematic approach to the careful structure of
each of its chapters, Berman illuminates how biblical writers
offered support to their communities in a way that is still
relevant and appealing to a therapy-conscious contemporary society.
In this commentary, Joshua Berman considers Lamentations as a
literary work that creates meaning for a community in the wake of
tragedy through its repudiation of Zion theology. Drawing from
studies in collective trauma, his volume is the first study of
Lamentations that systematically accounts for the constructed
character of the narrator, a pastoral mentor who engages in a
series of dialogues with a second constructed character, daughter
Zion, who embodies the traumatized community of survivors. In each
chapter, the pastoral mentor speaks to a different religious
typology and a different sub-community of post-destruction Judeans,
working with daughter Zion to reconsider her errant positions and
charting for her a positive way forward to reconnecting with the
Lord. Providing a systematic approach to the careful structure of
each of its chapters, Berman illuminates how biblical writers
offered support to their communities in a way that is still
relevant and appealing to a therapy-conscious contemporary society.
Inconsistencies in the Torah is a critical intellectual history of
the theories of textual growth in biblical studies. The historical
critical approach to the Pentateuch has long relied upon scholarly
intuition concerning some of its narrative and legal discrepancies,
which scholars have taken as signs of fragmentation and competing
agendas. Those hypotheses are, Joshua A. Berman argues, based on
anachronistic, nineteenth-century understandings of ancient Near
Eastern and biblical law as statutory law. Indeed, the Pentateuch's
inconsistencies are not dissimilar to types of narrative
inconsistencies from Egyptian monumental inscriptions and the
historical prologues of the Hittite vassal treaty tradition. Berman
here explores the inconsistencies between the Pentateuch's four
corpora of law by surveying the history of legal theory and its
influence on the critical study of biblical law. He lays bare how
the intellectual movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries impeded the proper execution of historical critical
method in the study of the Pentateuch. Ultimately he advocates a
return to the hermeneutics of Spinoza and the adoption of a
methodologically modest agenda. This book is a must-read for
Biblicists looking to escape from the impasse and extreme
fragmentation gripping the field today.
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