Daughter Zion Talks Back to the Prophets: A Dialogic Theology of the Book of Lamentations

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Society of Biblical Lit, 2007 - 149 pages

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Introduction
1
The Construction of Daughter Zionin the Prophets
29
Beyond Form Criticism
55
Daughter Zion Finds Her Voice
79
God Speaks Tenderly to Jerusalem?
103
Why Dialogic Reading Matters
121

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Page 6 - The authoritative word demands that we acknowledge it, that we make it our own; it binds us, quite independent of any power it might have to persuade us internally; we encounter it with its authority already fused to it. The authoritative word is located in a distanced zone, organically connected with a past that is felt to be hierarchically higher. It is, so to speak, the word of the fathers. Its authority was already acknowledged in the past. It is a prior discourse. It is therefore not a question...

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