[Rezension von: Eklund, Rebekah Ann, Jesus wept : the significance of Jesus' laments in the New Testament]
Rebekah Eklund is Assistant Professor at Loyola University, Maryland, USA. Her book grew out of her Th.D. dissertation at Duke Divinity School in 2012. The questions driving her study arise from the observation that most literature calling for the theological recovery of lament seems to be based on...
| Published in: | Neotestamentica |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Neotestamentica
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| Review of: | Jesus wept (London [u.a.] : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2015) (Dickie, June)
Jesus wept (London, UK : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2015) (Dickie, June) |
| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament NBF Christology |
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| Summary: | Rebekah Eklund is Assistant Professor at Loyola University, Maryland, USA. Her book grew out of her Th.D. dissertation at Duke Divinity School in 2012. The questions driving her study arise from the observation that most literature calling for the theological recovery of lament seems to be based on OT texts (1). Her conclusion is that, in the NT, “[l]ament has been altered, but by no means diminished” (2).Eklund’s book comprises seven chapters, in a dense 172 pages. The first chapter seeks to bridge lament in the NT to that in the OT. She notes: “While I find the form-critical description of the lament psalm helpful for describing the basic pattern of lament, I adopt a somewhat broader and more flexible definition for lament” (6 n. 5). I see her “flexible definition” of “lament” as problematic and refer to it again in my conclusion. At times, her definition of lament seems to refer to petition only (16-17); at other times, to confession of sin (6, 10), intercession (98-104) or mourning/grief (54). |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/neo.2020.0014 |