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Surviving Lamentations : Catastrophe, Lament, and Protest in the Afterlife of a Biblical Book
Surviving Lamentations Catastrophe Lament and Protest in the Afterlife of a Biblical Book
Author: Tod Linafelt
Most contemporary interpretations of the biblical book of Lamentations focus on the figure of the "suffering man" as a role model for submission in the face of God's punishment for sin. Yet such a model offers small consolation to survivors of the Holocaust or other mass atrocities and also ignores chapters 1 and 2 of Lamentations, in which the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226481906
ISBN-10: 0226481905
Publication Date: 7/1/2000
Pages: 192
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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