: Miriam J. Bier
: 'Perhaps there is Hope' Reading Lamentations as a Polyphony of Pain, Penitence, and Protest
: Bloomsbury T&T Clark
: 9780567658371
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: CHF 80.80
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: Christentum
: English
: 224
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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.