Studies in the Book of Lamentations

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 "e;doom"e; and "e;hope"e; that reverberates through the five laments composed during the exile to cope with the fall of Jerusalem. Created...