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Images and Ideas of Debated Readings in the Book of Lamentations (Orientalische Religionen in der Antike) - Hardcover

Kotze, Gideon R.

 
9783161595035: Images and Ideas of Debated Readings in the Book of Lamentations (Orientalische Religionen in der Antike)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3161595033 ISBN 13: 9783161595035
Publisher: Mohr Siebrek Ek, 2020

Synopsis

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 environment of Lamentations. After surveying examples of passages in Lamentations where the Hebrew wordings show remarkable resemblances to the images and ideas exhibited by cultural products from all over the ancient Near East, the author discusses five case studies of debated readings that can be explained along similar lines. On this interpretation, the readings in question are not corrupt and do not have to be emended for that reason.

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Publisher
Mohr Siebrek Ek
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3161595033
ISBN 13 
9783161595035
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
142