John has an intriguing post regarding Lam. 3:51: Lamentations 3:51: A New Proposal This is a notoriously problematic passage and John has an interesting proposal for a textual reconstruction. Of greater interest to me is his broader conclusions that I am not sure that I can agree with.
On this reading, in 3:1, at the onset [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Lamentations’
John Hobbins Reconstructing Lamentations
“Have you forgotten us completely?” Crying Out to a Loving God
Below is the podcast of the talk I presented for Tisha b’Av at Beth Israel. (Not sure why the text below is duplicated. Sorry about that, I am using a new podcasting plugin.)
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (11.0MB)
New translation of Targum Lamentations
This is mostly a post to test the integration of my blog with twitter, but a separate post doesn’t hurt to emphasize that, at long last, I have updated/corrected my translation of TgLam. This translation is based upon Codex Vaticanus Urbinas Hebr. 1 (the images from the older but incomplete Solger MS can be found here [...]
Lamb-entations: “You can believe in God and still miss Him.”
That title was not mine, but that of the print version of Carla Carlisle’s “Spectator” column in Country Life magazine from last Lent. (Thanks to Philip Jenkins for sending me a copy last week.) Carlisle is not only a columnist, but also a farmer (near as I can tell) in England who raises sheep. Last [...]
Lamentations Bible Brief now available
My short introduction to Lamentations for the Bible Briefs series is now available in a lovely pdf. Free download here.
