Whether dealing with collective catastrophe or intimate trauma, recovering from emotional and physical hurt is hard. Kathleen O'Connor shows that although Jeremiah's emotionally wrought language can aggravate readers memories of pain, it also documents the ways an ancient community - and the prophet personally - sought to restore their collapsed social world. Both prophet and book provide a traumatized community language to articulate disaster; move self-understanding from delusional security to identity as survivors; constitute individuals as responsible moral agents; portray God as equally afflicted by disaster; and invite a reconstruction of reality.

Jeremiah: Pain and Promise

Religion & Spirituality

O'Connor, Kathleen M.

Christian Books & Bibles

Fortress Press

The book of Job is a vivid testimony to pain, a plea for justice, and a wrenching theological debate about suffering and its causes. Central to this debate are questions about the roles that God and humans play in causing human suffering and whether divine-human relationships can proceed in the midst of overwhelming anguish. Like a riddle, the text grasps readers' minds and emotions, inviting them to participate in Job's story and to work toward their own solution to the dilemmas of both Job and his friends.

Job: Volume 19 (Volume 19) (New Collegeville Bible Commentary: Old Testament)

Liturgical Press

This volume presents the spiritualties, implicit or explicit, of the wisdom books of the Old Testament. An additional goal is to explore the vast and frequently overlooked resource that wisdom literature provides for contemporary believers.

The Wisdom Literature (MESSAGE OF BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Confessions of Jeremiah: Their Interpretation and Their Role in Chapters 1-25 (Society of Biblical Literature)

UNKNO

The Confessions of Jeremiah: Their Interpretation and Role in Chapters 1-25 (Society Of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series)

Society of Biblical Literature

Stories of disaster and destruction, often a crux of interpretation in Genesis, find new resonance when set against the backdrop of a nation scattered and in disarray, for they reflect the suffering and theological dilemmas of invasion and warfare.This commentary views the book of Genesis as a sacred text that, in conjunction with other biblical books, enabled the people of Judah/Israel to begin anew after the nation’s destruction by the Babylonian Empire. In Genesis, the Creator God brings forth life by the Word alone. The promises of God to Abraham form the heart of the book and offer more than mere survival; they promise abundant life, children beyond counting, overflowing blessings, and life begun again in the land. Genesis is a profound resource of faith for all communities and individuals who have known loss and seek new life.Written by accomplished scholars with all students of Scripture in mind, this innovative new commentary series is designed to make quality Bible study more accessible. Pastors, professors and students of Scripture are discovering that this commentary is a wonderful new tool for enhancing interpretation.Written by accomplished scholars with all students of Scripture in mind, this innovative new commentary series is designed to make quality Bible study more accessible. Pastors, professors and students of Scripture are discovering that this commentary is a wonderful new tool for enhancing interpretation.

Genesis 1-25A (Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary series)

Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated

Genesis 25B-50 (Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary series)

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