The Targum of Lamentations

The Targum of Lamentations
Author:
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2024-05-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814689515

This work provides a definitive translation into English of the Targum of Lamentations, based on a critical reading of all the extant versions, with textual annotations and extensive notes. An appendix offers, in addition, a translation and annotation of the Yemenite version.

The Targum of Lamentations

The Targum of Lamentations
Author: Philip S. Alexander
Publisher: Aramaic Bible
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780814658642

This work provides a definitive translation into English of the Targum of Lamentations, based on a critical reading of all the extant versions, with textual annotations and extensive notes. An appendix offers, in addition, a translation and annotation of the Yemenite version.

Beautiful and Terrible Things

Beautiful and Terrible Things
Author: Christian M. M. Brady
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1611649986

Bible scholar Christian Brady, an expert on Old Testament lament, was as prepared as a person could be for the death of a child—which is to say, not nearly well enough. When his eight-year-old son died suddenly from a fast-moving blood infection, Brady heard the typical platitudes about accepting God's will and knew that quiet acceptance was not the only godly way to grieve. With deep faith, knowledge of Scripture, and the wisdom that comes only from experience, Brady guides readers grieving losses and setbacks of all kinds in voicing their lament to God, reflecting on the nature of human existence, and persevering in hope. Brady finds that rather than an image of God managing every event and action in our lives, the biblical account describes the very real world in which we all live, a world full of hardship and calamity that often comes unbidden and unmerited. Yet, it also is a world into which God lovingly intrudes to bring comfort, peace, and grace.

The Rabbinic Targum of Lamentations

The Rabbinic Targum of Lamentations
Author: Christian M.M. Brady
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 900449670X

This volume is a study of how Targum Lamentations (TgLam) interpreted and responded to the theologically challenging message of the Book of Lamentations. Through various exegetical techniques the targumist has transformed Lamentations into a rabbinic program for the synagogue. The first section examines how the targumist demonstrated that Israel herself is responsible for the destruction of Jerusalem and thus absolves God of all culpability. Yet the targumist continues to assert that God is the ultimate source of all history. The second section examines how the targumist depicts God as orchestrating events through his action and abstention. Finally, the targum argues that reconciliation with God can only come about through repentance and rabbinic worship. A new translation and a transcription of TgLam from Codex Urbinas Hebr. 1 is included.

The Targum of Psalms

The Targum of Psalms
Author:
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2024-05-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814689493

This work provides the first translation into English of the Targum of Psalms, together with an introduction, a critical apparatus listing variants from several manuscripts and their printed editions, and annotations.

The Bible in Aramaic. Vol. 2

The Bible in Aramaic. Vol. 2
Author: Alexander Sperber
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 658
Release: 2012-10-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004242333

In 1924, Professor Sperber graduated from Bonn University with a dissertation on "Das Propheten-Targum in seinem Verhältnis zum masoretischen Text". He was then invited to prepare a critical edition of the Targum. The Bible in Aramaic is the fruit of more than forty years of study, during which he made innumerable trips to various countries in order to visit libraries and examine manuscripts. The first part of the Bible in Aramaic appeared in 1959.

Great Is Thy Faithfulness?

Great Is Thy Faithfulness?
Author: Robin A. Parry
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2011-09-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1610974530

Lamentations is a book that has never had a place of honor at the table of Christian spirituality. This is an unfortunate state of affairs because its challenging poetry has much to offer. This volume explores the how the biblical book of Lamentations may be engaged afresh so that it can function as Holy Scripture for the ekklesia. Four main chapters consider issues in hermeneutics, exegesis, the use of Lamentations in worship, and pastoral reflections. These chapters have been supplemented by seventeen reception history studies written by an international team of Jewish and Christian scholars. These studies introduce a wide range of interpretations and uses of the book of Lamentations from throughout the history of Judaism and Christianity. They include examinations of the use of Lamentations in Isaiah 40-55, the Targum, Rashi, and contemporary Jewish thought, the Patristic period, Calvin, Jewish and Christian worship, music, Rembrandt, and psychological and feminist interpretation. Appendices include new English translations of LXX Lamentations and Targum Lamentations.