• AIU
  • Tony Wilmot Memorial Library

Lamentations /

Parry, Robin A.

Lamentations / Robin Parry. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2010. - xii, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - The two horizons Old Testament commentary . - Two horizons Old Testament commentary. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-247) and indexes.

Introduction -- Lamentations 1 : no comfort -- Lamentations 2 : wrath -- Lamentations 3 : hope -- Lamentations 4 : siege and salvation -- Lamentations 5 : restore us -- Theological horizons of Lamentations.

In this volume Robin Parry not only builds on traditional scholarship to interpret the book of Lamentations within its ancient context but also ventures further, exploring how the book can function as Christian Scripture. Parry provides the first systematic attempt to read Lamentations in light of the cross and resurrection. --from publisher description

9780802827142 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0802827144 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2010008906

BS1535.53 / .P37 2010

224/.3077