Jannie Hunter Livres

Focusing on the Book of Lamentations, this work offers a comprehensive exploration of its contents and development, emphasizing theological debates and intertextuality as key interpretive strategies. It presents new perspectives on the authorship and unity of the text, supported by detailed exegesis. The discussions include valuable insights into existing studies, making it a significant resource for further theological interpretation and scholarship on Lamentations.

BiAS 20 contains papers presented at the BiAS meeting 2014 in Windhoek (Namibia), with some additional contributions. Scholars from Nigeria, Cameroon, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia and Germany are dealing with the urgent question of how the Bible is involved in the widespread use of violence in political, social, religious, and gender conflicts. One leading question is how to deal with the textual representation of violence in the Bible. It is taken up by more general hermeneutical contributions. The other leading question is how biblical texts and/or concepts are used to cause and justify violence. This is taken up by a greater number of articles which deal with concrete societal and political contexts in Zimbabwe and other African countries. The conference in Namibia was supported as a Humboldt-Kolleg on the Bible and Violence in Africa by the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.