Voices from the Ruins Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible

Rom-Shiloni, Dalit

Voices from the Ruins Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible Dalit Rom-Shiloni - U.S.A. William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 2021 - 562tr. hardcover, illustrations 24 cm

... 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 doubt, and protested God's action (and inaction)...

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Bible -- Old Testament -- Theology
Theodicy -- Biblical teaching
Jerusalem in the Bible
God -- Biblical teaching

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