Tag: Lamentations 5

• Reflecting on Lamentations 5

  

  We are studying Lamentations 5, the concluding poem in the book of Lamentations, for Sunday, April 25. [Some notes on the text are here.] Here are a few questions we might want to consider, and perhaps discuss, as we study this text: How do we ourselves read the text? For instance, do we read it…

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  April 23, 2021

  Text of the Week – Questions

  Bible study, humanity, Lamentations, Lamentations 5, poetry, reading the Bible

• Studying Lamentations 5

  

  We are studying Lamentations 5 – the whole poem – for Sunday, April 25. This is the concluding poem of the cycle that forms the book of Lamentations, which is a lament for the suffering of the people of Jerusalem and Judah after the destruction by the Babylonians. [Some questions on the text are here.]…

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  April 22, 2021

  Text of the Week – Notes

  compassion, emotion, lament, Lamentations, Lamentations 5, poetry, reading the Bible, texts that aren't in the lectionary