Author: Christopher J. H. WrightPublish On: 2015-07-03
Re'emi, S. P., A Commentary on the Book of Lamentations: God's People in Crisis
, International Theological ... Thomas, H., 'Until He Looks Down and Sees': The Message and Meaning of the Book of Lamentations (Cambridge: Grove Books, ...
Author: Christopher J. H. Wright
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 9780830824410
Category: Religion
Page: 170
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The destruction of Jerusalem is the likely setting for the book of Lamentations, delivered from a place of unspeakable pain in poetry of astonishing beauty and intricacy. In this Bible Speaks Today volume, Christopher Wright shows that we must not, and cannot, isolate Lamentations from the rest of the Bible.
Christian Bibles, however, have traditionally followed the Septuagint, placing
Lamentations after Jeremiah, and thus including it as part of the prophetic
message. Message Lamentations is a tragic, mournful cry, expressing grief over
the fall ...
Author: J. Daniel Hays
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
ISBN: 9780310586968
Category: Religion
Page: 384
View: 620
Christians sometimes approach the Old Testament with a mixture of awe and bewilderment, knowing that it contains pearls of wisdom, but unsure how to dive for them ... especially when it comes to the Prophets. In The Message of the Prophets, author J. Daniel Hays offers a scholarly, yet readable and student-friendly survey of the Old Testament prophetic literature that presents the message of each prophet in its historical and its biblical context and then tracks that message through the New Testament to challenge readers with what it means for them today. Hays focuses on synthesizing the message of the prophets, which enables students to grasp the major contours of the prophetic books clearly and concisely. Hundreds of colorful pictures help to illustrate the historical and cultural background of the prophets. After identifying what the message meant for ancient Israel, Hays helps the readers to move toward theological application today, helping readers to gain a better understanding of God and the relationship between God and his people. The Message of the Prophets is essential for professors, students, and others seeking to understand the role that the OT prophets play in the Christian faith.
The destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C., which led to the exile of the people of Israel, drastically changed the community's life. In the midst of this darkness, the five poems collected as the biblical book of Lamentations emerged as a life-embracing work. This sophisticated yet accessible commentary now makes the message of Lamentations come alive for Christian existence today. The distinctiveness of the Palestinian voice found in these poems is maintained as they bear witness to the horror and pain of human suffering. Yet, beneath the words, a determined will to live emerges and confronts human suffering, probes God and God's actions, and anticipates a new kind of human community that will arise from Zion, even in the midst of God's silence. - Publisher.
VII What about Lamentations Rabbati? A few remarks suffice. The theme of Lamentations Rabbati is Israel's relationship with God, and the message
concerning that theme is that the stipulative covenant still and always governs
that ...
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761820221
Category: Religion
Page: 216
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This theological commentary to the Rabbinic Midrash explores a simple proposition, in three parts: I. The reading of Scripture by principal parts of the Rabbinic Midrash is formed by compositions and composites that are animated by a cogent theological system. II. These primary components of the Midrash-compilations, further, are in part aimed at systematic demonstrations of theorems of a theological character. III. While forming a principal part of a large theological structure and system, each document is unique.
Certain of the motifs and ideas of these later Isaianic passages are employed in
such a way that they seem to presuppose the message of Lamentations . This is
particularly true of the announcement of the satisfaction of guilt and the quiet ...
Author: Norman K. Gottwald
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 9781725226678
Category: Religion
Page: 128
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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 "doom" and "hope" that reverberates through the five laments composed during the exile to cope with the fall of Jerusalem. Created for public performance, the poems artfully alternate the voices of the poet and the community, personified by turns as a forlorn widow (Fair Zion) and as an afflicted man (Jacob/Israel). The book attributes the catastrophe in part to the moral and social failures of Judah's leadership, but it also finds the enormity of the suffering beyond moral or theological explanation.
Author: Christopher J. H. WrightPublish On: 2001-08-10
Christopher J. H. Wright masterfully opens our eyes to see and understand the message of Ezekiel.
Author: Christopher J. H. Wright
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 9780830883226
Category: Religion
Page: 368
View: 157
Christopher J. H. Wright masterfully opens our eyes to see and understand the message of Ezekiel. Ezekiel's vision of the glory of God--its departure and return--is first set within Israel's history and then in the culmination of God's promises in Christ. Embedded in the pattern of the strange, the bizarre and the wonderful is a word that still speaks to God's people today.
122 These scholars value the alphabetic acrostic in Lamentations as
corresponding to the intention of the book. For them, the characteristics of the
acrostic as applied in Lamentations carry the message of the book. still other
attempts have ...
Author: Lina Rong
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 9781620325902
Category: Religion
Page: 222
View: 462
This study takes Lamentations as an integrated unity of form and content and considers the mini-acrostic in Lam 5:19-20 as crucial for the interpretation of the whole book. It applies a holistic approach and a dialogic interpretation to the book of Lamentations. Examining first the extent to which an intrinsic connection exists between the acrostic structure and the content of the book, Rong reads Lamentations as a whole from the angle of the mini-acrostic in Lam 5:19-20. She explores whether and how this mini-acrostic underlines the main themes running through the book. Moreover, Rong explores the dialogic interaction among the voices within Lamentations and between Lamentations and other related communal laments in the Hebrew Bible on the subjects of mood change and the admission of guilt. Finally, this book examines the significance of Lamentations for contemporary suffering--individuals and communities.
Though it is a message of lamentations, itis sweet in the mouth to God's faithful
people. God has revealed to His very elect what is happening tothe Church of
God and how the problem will be solved. THEFACT THAT THIS MESSAGE ...
Author: Gerald Flurry
Publisher: Philadelphia Church of God
ISBN:
Category: Religion
Page: 103
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Lamentations was a warning to ancient Judah that it had reached the point of no return. The nation could no longer repent to avoid being taken captive by Babylon. What happened to Judah is only a type of what is prophesied to happen in this end time. It is a prophecy where the Laodicean Church and three nations of Israel (America, Britain and the Jewish nation) have reached the point of no return. They are going to become enslaved by a modern-day Babylon from Europe. Only individuals can still repent before the Great Tribulation. And even they have only a tiny span of time to do so. In this booklet: • The God That Rules • Josiah's Role in the End Time • Why God Must Punish the Laodiceans • Building a Foundation of Hope • Lamentations, Mourning and Woe This ebook is offered completely free of charge by the Philadelphia Church of God. However, please not that Google Play will need a verified Google Wallet account which requires your credit card information. In a small number of countries, a temporary authorization of $1 will be charged to your account but will be refunded. This refund can take up to 1 month to process.
Lifting out the understated themes of love, grace, promise and renewal in Jeremiah and Lamentations, this commentary by Hetty Lalleman opens our eyes to an important chapter in salvation history.
Author: Hetty Lalleman
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 9780830842834
Category: Religion
Page: 373
View: 967
Lifting out the understated themes of love, grace, promise and renewal in Jeremiah and Lamentations, this commentary by Hetty Lalleman opens our eyes to an important chapter in salvation history.
Author: Christian M. M. BradyPublish On: 2003-01-01
CHAPTER TWO GOD'S IN / ACTION The Book of Lamentations , for all of its
struggles to comprehend what has occurred ... and it could be argued that the
targumist is , in many cases , not significantly altering the message of the biblical
...
Author: Christian M. M. Brady
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004121633
Category: Religion
Page: 187
View: 170
"The Rabbinic Targum of Lamentations" demonstrates how the targumist transformed the Book of Lamentations by absolving God of all guilt, declaring Israel's culpability for Jerusalem's destruction, and presenting the path towards reconciliation through repentance and rabbinic worship. A new translation of TgLam is included.
Gary V. Smith ISBN: 978-0-310-20614-9 Jonah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah
James Bruckner shows how the messages of these four Old Testament prophets,
who lived during some of Israel and Judah's most turbulent times, are as ...
Author: J. Andrew Dearman
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 9780310872832
Category: Religion
Page: 496
View: 225
The books of Jeremiah and Lamentations cannot be separated from the political conditions of ancient Judah. Beginning with the righteous king Josiah, who ushered in a time of glorious but brief religious reform, Jeremiah reflects the close tie between spiritual and political prosperity or disaster, between the actions and heart of Judah and her kings and their fortunes as a nation. While few of us today have any firsthand understanding of what it means to live in a theocracy, the central theme of Jeremiah and Lamentations remains clear and still holds true: God first, politics second. The words, prayers, and poems of "the weeping prophet" serve to realign us with God’s priorities, turning us from evil and encouraging us to pursue God and his ways. With emotion and spiritual depth, these prophetic writings beckon us toward a spiritual integrity that can still affect the course of individuals and nations today. Most Bible commentaries take us on a one-way trip from our world to the world of the Bible. But they leave us there, assuming that we can somehow make the return journey on our own. They focus on the original meaning of the passage but don’t discuss its contemporary application. The information they offer is valuable--but the job is only half done! The NIV Application Commentary Series helps bring both halves of the interpretive task together. This unique, award-winning series shows readers how to bring an ancient message into our postmodern context. It explains not only what the Bible meant but also how it speaks powerfully today.
Looking at the Old Testament book of Lamentations Kaiser does not offer any easy solutions - but rather shows us how a Sovereign and Loving God can work through even the most painful moments. --from publisher description.
Author: Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.
Publisher: Christian Focus
ISBN: 1857929934
Category: Religion
Page: 142
View: 164
Looking at the Old Testament book of Lamentations Kaiser does not offer any easy solutions - but rather shows us how a Sovereign and Loving God can work through even the most painful moments. --from publisher description.
This was the message of the faithful prophet to the nations. 4. The message to
Ammon (49:1–6). Again the prophetic message involves a national deity, Milcom,
“the king.” Ammon, by serving him, was guilty of trusting “in her treasures” (49:4).
Author: John Guest
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 9781418587680
Category: Religion
Page: 376
View: 947
General editor Lloyd J. Ogilvie brings together a team of skilled and exceptional communicators to blend sound scholarship with life-related illustrations. The design for the Preacher's Commentary gives the reader an overall outline of each book of the Bible. Following the introduction, which reveals the author's approach and salient background on the book, each chapter of the commentary provides the Scripture to be exposited. The New King James Bible has been chosen for the Preacher's Commentary because it combines with integrity the beauty of language, underlying Hebrew and Greek textual basis, and thought-flow of the 1611 King James Version, while replacing obsolete verb forms and other archaisms with their everyday contemporary counterparts for greater readability. Reverence for God is preserved in the capitalization of all pronouns referring to the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit. Readers who are more comfortable with another translation can readily find the parallel passage by means of the chapter and verse reference at the end of each passage being exposited. The paragraphs of exposition combine fresh insights to the Scripture, application, rich illustrative material, and innovative ways of utilizing the vibrant truth for his or her own life and for the challenge of communicating it with vigor and vitality.
E8.8 Lamentations , Threni ; Baruch 3949 Cooper , Alan The message of Lamentations . JANES 28 ( 2001 ) 1-18 . 3950 Dobbs - Allsopp , Fred W. The
enjambing line in Lamentations : a taxonomy ( Part 1 ) . ZAW 113 ( 2001 ) 219-
239 ; 3951 ...
Author: M. Schoenmaeckers
Publisher: Gregorian Biblical BookShop
ISBN: 8876536264
Category: Religion
Page: 336
View: 540
Le 23 novembre 1964, jour de la promulgation de Lumen Gentium, la constitution dogmatique sur l'Eglise, marque un evenement: c'est la premiere fois dans l'histoire de l'Eglise qu'une assemblee de la Sainte Eglise s'exprime solennellement sur la vie consacree. Le sixieme chapitre de la constitution traite de la signification et de l'essence de la vie religieuse, la reliant au mystere de l'Eglise, peuple de Dieu. Ce texte conciliaire presente la vie religieuse comme un etat canonique, celui du chretien qui tend, dans un institut de perfection, a la charite parfaite et consacre sa vie a Dieu et aux hommes ppar la profession des conseils evangeliques de chastete, pauvrete et obeissance. De toute evidence, cette declaration doctrinale est importante pour l'Eglise et pour le developpement de la vie consacree dans l'Eglise. En lisant Lumen Gentium, on est assez vite frappe par le debut abrupt du sixieme chapitre sur les religieux; car tous les autres chapitres s'ouvrent par une breve introduction. Cepedant on ne peut deracher ce chapitre de ce que a ete dit precedemment sur la vocation universelle a la saintete. En fait, l'histoire du texte fait clairement ressortir le lien qui unit ces chapitres.
Albrektson, B. 1963 Studies in the Text and Theology of the Book of Lamentations with a Critical Edition of the Peshitta Text (STL, 21; Lund: Gleerup).
Aletti, J .-N., and J. Trublet 1983 Approche poétique et théologique des psaumes
(Paris: ...
Author: David C. Mitchell
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781850756897
Category: Religion
Page: 428
View: 193
This intriguing work argues that the book of Psalms has been redacted to reflect a programme of eschatological events like that of Zechariah 9-14. These events include the ingathering of exiled Israel by a bridegroom-king; his establishment of a kingdom, followed by his violent death; the scattering of Israel in the wilderness, and their subsequent regathering and further imperilment; their rescue by a king from the sky, who establishes his kingdom from Zion, brings peace and prosperity to the earth and receives the homage of the nations. There is an appendix of apocalyptic midrashim, translated into English for the first time. www.mornstar.co.uk/
The shorter prophetical books, known as the Minor Prophets, are no less
important; but, at the same time, one cannot escape the divine intention of
emphasis by the repetition and amplification so evident in the long messages of
the Major ...
Author: Irving L. Jensen
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 1575678926
Category: Religion
Page: 156
View: 900
Jeremiah, previously published as a separate volume, has been combined with Lamentations to provide a carefully organized exposition that reconstructs the historical and cultural backgrounds as well as the vital message of the two Old Testament books. Jeremiah is a penetrating analysis of a significant prophetic book regarded as especially relevant to modern times. Lamentations is an appropriate companion to this book, for it looks back to the event that Jeremiah anticipated, the fall of Jerusalem, and describes in stunningly evocative language the grief that Israel experienced. Using a paragraph-by-paragraph method of analysis, Dr. Jensen explores major units of thought in these biblical books. He effectively uses charts, maps, and informative footnotes to aid the reader's understanding.
A Short Guide to Its History and Message Tremper Longman III. Recommended
Resources Dearman, A. Jeremiah, Lamentations. NIVAC. Grand Rapids:
Zondervan, 2002. Longman, T. Jeremiah, Lamentations. NIBCOT. Peabody, MA:
...
Author: Tremper Longman III
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 9780310491408
Category: Religion
Page: 160
View: 947
An abridged edition of the bestselling book An Introduction to the Old Testament, this rich guide makes Old Testament scholarship accessible to the average reader. Renowned Bible scholar Tremper Longman III gathers the best in historical research and literary analysis to lead the reader through each book of the Old Testament. Most significantly, Longman explores the meaning of each book in light of its cultural setting. Abbreviated chapters highlight key research discoveries, ensuring that the information is both significant and manageable. Including questions at the end of each chapter for group discussion or personal reflection, Introducing the Old Testament makes the words, history, and culture of biblical times come alive for readers. Laypersons as well as church leaders will take away a solid understanding of the historical background and theological message of the Old Testament and be inspired to apply biblical truths to their lives.
The books of Jeremiah and Lamentations cannot be separated from the political conditions of ancient Judah.
Author: John Andrew Dearman
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 9780310206163
Category: Religion
Page: 488
View: 132
The books of Jeremiah and Lamentations cannot be separated from the political conditions of ancient Judah. Beginning with the righteous king Josiah, who ushered in a time of glorious but brief religious reform, Jeremiah reflects the close tie between spiritual and political prosperity or disaster, between the actions and heart of Judah and her kings and their fortunes as a nation. While few of us today have any firsthand understanding of what it means to live in a theocracy, the central theme of Jeremiah and Lamentations remains clear and still holds true: God first, politics second. The words, prayers, and poems of "the weeping prophet" serve to realign us with God’s priorities, turning us from evil and encouraging us to pursue God and his ways. With emotion and spiritual depth, these prophetic writings beckon us toward a spiritual integrity that can still affect the course of individuals and nations today. Most Bible commentaries take us on a one-way trip from our world to the world of the Bible. But they leave us there, assuming that we can somehow make the return journey on our own. They focus on the original meaning of the passage but don’t discuss its contemporary application. The information they offer is valuable--but the job is only half done! The NIV Application Commentary Series helps bring both halves of the interpretive task together. This unique, award-winning series shows readers how to bring an ancient message into our postmodern context. It explains not only what the Bible meant but also how it speaks powerfully today.
That is the message of the document, and, seen whole, the principal message, to
which all other messages prove peripheral. Lamentations Rabbah (Eikha
Rabbati) The theme of Lamentations Rabbati is Israel's relationship with God,
and the ...
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780470758007
Category: Religion
Page: 576
View: 670
This Companion explores the history, doctrines, divisions, and contemporary condition of Judaism. Surveys those issues most relevant to Judaic life today: ethics, feminism, politics, and constructive theology Explores the definition of Judaism and its formative history Makes sense of the diverse data of an ancient and enduring faith
29:15–19 / While the message of the letter is ultimately positive, the short term
outlook is bleak. Thus, God expects that the people will not immediately accept
the divine oracle delivered by Jeremiah. This attitude seems to explain best the ...
Author: Tremper Longman III
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 9781441238382
Category: Religion
Page: 432
View: 786
The New International Biblical Commentary (NIBC) offers the best of contemporary scholarship in a format useful both for general readers and serious students. Based on the widely used New International Version translation, the NIBC presents careful section-by-section exposition with key terms and phrases highlighted and all Hebrew transliterated. A separate section of notes at the close of each chapter provides additional textual and technical comments. Each commentary also includes a selected bibliography as well as Scripture and subject indexes.
