Perhaps there is Hope'

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Perhaps there is Hope' is written by Miriam J. Bier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0567658376 (ISBN 10) and 9780567658371 (ISBN 13).

Bier proposes here a strong new understanding of the Book of Lamentations, drawing on Bakhtinian ideas of multiple voices to analyse the poetic speaking voices within the text; examining their theological perspectives, and nuancing the interaction between them. Bier scrutinises interpretations of Lamentations, distinguishing between exegesis that reads Lamentations as a theodicy, in defense of God, and those that read it as an anti-theodicy, in defense of Zion. Rather than reductively adopting either of these approaches, this book advocates a dialogic approach to Lamentations, reading to hear the full polyphony of pain, penitence, and protest.