Vindicating Yahweh: A Close Reading of Lamentations 3.21-42
Recent scholarship on Lamentations has focused on the voice of Daughter Zion in chs. 1-2. Interpreters argue that the frank protests constitute an antitheodicy and have placed these poems in opposition to the voice of the man in Lamentations 3, specifically 3.21-42. This section utilizes Deuteronomi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2018]
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Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2018, Volume: 43, Issue: 1, Pages: 83-108 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Old Testament
/ Bible. Klagelieder 3
/ Bible. Klagelieder 3,21-42
/ Poetics
/ Theodicy
/ Deuteronomium
/ Wisdom
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| IxTheo Classification: | FA Theology HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Dialogism
B Theodicy B Lamentations B Lamentations 3 B Bakhtin B Bible. Klagelieder 3,21-42 B double-voicing B secular theodicy |
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| Summary: | Recent scholarship on Lamentations has focused on the voice of Daughter Zion in chs. 1-2. Interpreters argue that the frank protests constitute an antitheodicy and have placed these poems in opposition to the voice of the man in Lamentations 3, specifically 3.21-42. This section utilizes Deuteronomistic and Wisdom material to offer a theodicy, counseling penitent acceptance of God's righteous judgment. This article nuances previous analyses of Lam. 3.21-42, arguing in particular that vv. 33-39 subtly manipulate the expected theodic solution until Yahweh's culpability as oppressive agent is denied rather than justified. It is argued that the poet glimpses a secular' theodicy. This is accomplished through close exegesis of Lam. 3.21-42, and by utilizing Mikhail Bakhtin's concepts of dialogism' and double-voicing'. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-6728 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0309089215701325 |