The Book of Lamentations

by John Goldingay and John E. Goldingay

The book of Lamentations is one of the most vivid representations of grief and trauma in the Hebrew Bible. Written in the wake of the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonian Empire, it is comprised of five poems of twenty-two stanzas each, in a manner of tight formal unity unparalleled by any other work in the Scriptures.

In this volume, widely respected Old Testament scholar John Goldingay analyzes these and other aspects of Lamentations while...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802825427
• ISBN13: 9780802825421
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"