Voices from the Ruins: Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible Rom-Shiloni Dalit
Where was God in the sixth-century destruction of Jerusalem?The Hebrew Bible compositions written during and around the sixth century BCE provide an illuminating glimpse into how ancient Judeans…
Specifikacia Voices from the Ruins: Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible Rom-Shiloni Dalit
Where was God in the sixth-century destruction of Jerusalem?The Hebrew Bible compositions written during and around the sixth century BCE provide an illuminating glimpse into how ancient Judeans reconciled the major qualities of God--as Lord, fierce warrior, and often harsh rather than compassionate judge--with the suffering they were experiencing at the hands of the Neo-Babylonian empire, which had brutally destroyed Judah and deported its people. Voices from the Ruins examines the biblical texts "explicitly and directly contextualized by those catastrophic events"--Kings, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Lamentations, and selected Psalms--to trace the rich, diverse, and often-polemicized discourse over theodicy unfolding therein. Dalit Rom-Shiloni shows how the "voices from the ruins" in these texts variously justified God in the face of the rampant destruction, expressed
Voices from the Back of the Bus