February 13, 2024
Understanding Lamentations
Dr. Adele Berlin
Dr. Adele Berlin taught in the Winter Week 2011 program and several times in the Drishat Shalom Fellowship. She is the Robert H. Smith Professor of Bible Emerita at University of Maryland. Her special interests are literary approaches to the Bible and the theory and practice of biblical interpretation. She has published seven books, written over thirty scholarly articles, and edited three books.
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In this series, we will conduct a close reading of the text of Lamentations. We will focus on the poetry, the significance of Jerusalem’s destruction and the ways it is shown, the use of gender in the book, and the ideas of mourning, exile, and return