“We have Sinned and Rebelled; You have Not Forgiven”
Conventional readings of Lamentations invariably appeal to the “central” chapter 3 and its male character, the רבג, as pivotal for the meaning and purpose of Lamentations. Such readings emphasize the sin of humanity and the justice of God and can be broadly described as theodic in character. A numbe...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2014
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Biblical interpretation
Année: 2014, Volume: 22, Numéro: 2, Pages: 146-167 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
authoritative
internally persuasive
Bakhtin
theodicy
antitheodicy
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Résumé: | Conventional readings of Lamentations invariably appeal to the “central” chapter 3 and its male character, the רבג, as pivotal for the meaning and purpose of Lamentations. Such readings emphasize the sin of humanity and the justice of God and can be broadly described as theodic in character. A number of more recent readings that can be aptly described as antitheodic, however, react against this centralizing tendency, emphasizing instead the protesting voice of Zion in chapters 1 and 2. Neither the רבג nor Zion’s discourses, however, is as homogeneously theodic or antitheodic as these readings and counter-readings would suggest. Rather, both speakers present elements of penitence and submission to suffering (theodicy), on the one hand, and protest and accusation of God (antitheodicy), on the other.
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| ISSN: | 1568-5152 |
| Contient: | In: Biblical interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685152-0022p03 |