The timeless, unifying rhetoric of Lamentations
Certain poetic features of Lamentations contribute to an ongoing preservative/cohesive function in faith communities. In form and content the reader/audience is confronted with completeness-a nation's complete destruction, the complete range of human emotion-and with incompleteness-a fragmented people, broken institutions, unanswered theological questions.¹
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | English |
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The Old Testament Society of Southern Africa (OTSSA)
2012
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1010-99192012000300008 |
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