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A Liturgy of Grief: A Pastoral Commentary on Lamentations is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Lamentations, we read of the unbearable grief experienced by a group of believers. Leslie Allen suggests the book can be read as the script of a liturgy performed to help the people of God come to terms with the fall of Jerusalem and the national catastrophe it entailed. It reveals God’s sometimes hidden support for those who grieve and for their caregivers. In this unique commentary A Liturgy...

transition that sensitively takes the congregation through the emotional and spiritual trauma of their losses, helps them toward a new start, and finally involves them in a creative response of their own that they are ready to make in the final poem. Commentators often remark that there is no fourth voice—the voice of God—that takes part in the liturgy. This absence accords with the admission in Lamentations 2:9, Her prophets found no revelation from Yahweh, and with the broader prophetic tradition
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