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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...

This, I suggest, is quite wrong. All the violence of the Babylonians, Edomites, and others against Zion is culpable and liable to punishment. While God used the evil actions of humans to bring about his righteous judgment, this does not make those human actions righteous. The enemies were not seeking to bring about YHWH’s righteous judgment on Zion. Their goal was quite different, and their actions were sinful. No attempt is made in Lamentations to explain how human freedom and responsibility are
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