A year ago, almost to the day, I shared with you all that a new book was forthcoming on the topic of Lamentations and its interpretation in Christianity and Judaism. Yesterday I received the proofs and Great Is Thy Faithfulness: Reading Lamentations as Sacred Scripture should be ready for purchase at SBL! The publisher is now Pickwick Publications/Wipf and Stock. The book is edited by Robin Parry and Heath Thomas. The table of contents follows below.
You know I like wordle.net so here is the Book of Lamentations and below is Targum Lamentations.
Great Is Thy Faithfulness: Reading Lamentations as Sacred Scripture
Introduction—Robin A. Parry and Heath A. Thomas / xi
1 “Holy Scripture” and Hermeneutics: Lamentations in Critical and Theological Reflection—Heath A. Thomas / 1
2 Outrageous Demonstrations of Grace: The Theology of Lamentations —Paul R. House / 26
Soundings in Jewish Reception History
A Lamentations in Isaiah 40–55—Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer / 55
B The Character and Significance of LXX Lamentations —Kevin J. Youngblood / 64
C Targum Lamentations—Christian M. M. Brady / 70
D Lamentations Rabbati—Jacob Neusner / 77
E Introduction to Rashi’s Commentary on Lamentations —Mayer I. Gruber / 83
F Lamentations in Jewish Liturgy—Elsie R. Stern / 88
G Lamentations in Modern Jewish Thought—Zachary Braiterman / 92
Soundings in Messianic Jewish Reception History
H Holocaust Theology in the Light of Yeshua? Messianic Jewish
Reception of Eikah—Richard Harvey / 101
Soundings in Christian Reception History
I Lamentations in the Patristic Period—Heath A. Thomas / 113
J Christian Interpretation of Lamentations in the Middle Ages —David S. Hogg / 120
K John Calvin’s Interpretation of Lamentations—Pete Wilcox / 125
L Lamentations for the Lord: Great and Holy Friday in the Greek Orthodox Church—Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou / 131
M Lamentations and Christian Worship —Andrew Cameron-Mowat SJ / 139
Soundings in Artistic and Contemporary Reception
N Musical Responses to Lamentations—F. Jane Schopf / 147
O Lamentations in Rembrandt van Rijn: “Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem”—Heath A. Thomas / 154
P Psychological Approaches to Lamentations—Paul M. Joyce / 161 Q Feminist Interpretation(s) of Lamentations—Heath A. Thomas / 166
3 Wrestling with Lamentations in Christian Worship—Robin A. Parry / 175
4 Confession and Complaint: Christian Pastoral Reflections on Lamentations—Ian Stackhouse / 198
Appendix 1: A Translation of LXX Lamentations—Kevin J. Youngblood / 211
Appendix 2: A Translation of Targum Lamentations —Christian M. M. Brady / 228
Appendix 3: Lamentations Rabbati on Lamentations 3:1–21 —Jacob Neusner / 248
Appendix 4: Rashi on Lamentations 3:1–21 / 264
Appendix 5: Calvin on Lamentations 3:1–23 / 267
