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God in the Dock

Dialogic Tension in the Psalms of Lament

God in the Dock

Dialogic Tension in the Psalms of Lament

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£170.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780826462008
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 01/01/2003
This book examines the dialogic structure of biblical psalms of lament. Observations about voicing are developed out of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, and are utilized to reevaluate the theological expression of lament psalms as well as components of Israel's rhetorical relationship with its deity. What emerges is a theology that gives voice to the tension that existed between faith in a god who practices flawless "hesed," or covenantal loyalty, and the experience of God's failure to uphold his side of the bargain.

Carleen Mandolfo

Carleen Mandolfo is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Colby College, Waterville, Maine.

'Her attention to the shift in voice in the lament of psalms can only be welcome...most rewarding'--Sanford Lakoff "European Journal Of Theology "

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