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In this volume, Robin Parry not only builds on traditional scholarship to interpret the book of Lamentations within its ancient context but also ventures further, exploring how the book can function as Christian Scripture. Parry provides the first systematic attempt to read Lamentations in light of the cross and resurrection—as Israel’s Holy Saturday literature, filled with the cries of those...

3:15), and the “poison” (cf. 3:5). God is called to remember them. The geber says that he certainly remembers them and his soul is downcast. The stanza not only looks back but also leads into vv. 22–24 with the words “This I remind my heart, therefore I wait hopefully.” But what does he remind his heart? To find out we have to read vv. 22–24. The prayer in 3:19 (“Remember my affliction and my wandering”) not only picks up on the earlier reference to the man’s “affliction” in 3:1 but also serves to
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