Images and Ideas of Debated Readings in the Book of Lamentations

by Gideon R. Kotzé

The Hebrew versions of the five poems in the book of Lamentations are riddled with debated readings. Debated readings are words, phrases, or sentences whose forms and meanings modern readers find difficult or objectionable. In this book, Gideon R. Kotze adopts a text-critical approach to the interpretation of such readings and suggests that some of them make sense as expressions of images and ideas that circulated widely in the cultural and intellectual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3161595033
• ISBN13: 9783161595035
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Length: 158 Pages