Lamentations Through the Centuries

• Features a wealth of reactions – covering two and a half millennia – to this ancient text's influential and unflinching account of the devastation wreaked by war
• Explores a kaleidoscope of examples ranging from the Dead Sea Scrolls; Yehudah Halevy; John Calvin; and composer, Thomas Tallis; through to the startling interpretations of Marc Chagall; contemporary novelist, Cynthia Ozick; and Zimbabwean junk sculpture
• Deploys "reception exegesis", a new genre of commentary that creatively blends reception history and biblical exegesis
• Offers sensitive treatment of challenging theological and psychological responses to one of the most disturbing books of the Hebrew Bible
• Widely relevant, with nuanced reflections – both religious and secular – on human suffering and the disasters of war

Diana Lipton teaches at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Rothberg International School. She has been a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, as well as Reader in Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies at King’s College London. She is the author of Revisions of the Night: Politics and Promises in the Patriarchal Dreams of Genesis (1999) and Longing for Egypt and Other Unexpected Biblical Tales (2008), and is co-editor of Feminism and Theology (with Janet Martin Soskice, 2003) and Studies on the Text and Versions of the Hebrew Bible in Honour of Robert Gordon (with Geoffrey Kahn, 2011).

Series Editors’ Preface viii

Abbreviations x

List of Figures xii

Introduction 1

COMMENTARY 26

Afterword 193

Bibliography 196

Author Index 206

Subject Index 209

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