Lamentation (The Shardlake series, 6)

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In Lamentation, Joe Clifford displays the same muscular prose, unsparing insight and generous heart he exhibited in his stunning debut, Junkie Love. This is a tale of small-town secrets and the troubled, unfathomable, unbreakable bond of brothers." —David Corbett, award-winning author of The Art of Character Lamentations 1:14 Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint He kept watch over my sins Shardlake, still haunted by events aboard the warship Mary Rose the year before, is working on the Cotterstoke Will case, a savage dispute between rival siblings. Then, unexpectedly, he is summoned to Whitehall Palace and asked for help by his old patron, the now beleaguered and desperate Queen. holy God, and the results were devastating. But at the heart of this book, at the center of this lament over the effects of sin in the world, sit a few verses devoted to hope in the Lord (Lamentations 3:22–25). This statement of faith standing strong in the midst of the surrounding darkness shines as a Lamentations combines elements of the qinah, a funeral dirge for the loss of the city, and the "communal lament" pleading for the restoration of its people. [5] It reflects the view, traceable to Sumerian literature of a thousand years earlier, that the destruction of the holy city was a punishment by God for the communal sin of its people. [6] However, while Lamentations is generically similar to the Sumerian laments of the early 2nd millennium BCE (e.g., " Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur," " Lament for Sumer and Ur," " Nippur Lament"), the Sumerian laments (that we have) were recited on the occasion of the rebuilding of a temple, so their story has a happy ending, whereas the book of Lamentations was written before the return/rebuilding, and thus contains only lamentations and pleas to God with no response or resolution. [3] [4]

Huey, F. B. (1993). "Jeremiah, Lamentations". The New American Commentary. Vol.16. Broadman & Holman Publishers. In a frigid New Hampshire winter, Jay Porter is trying to eke out a living and maintain some semblance of a relationship with his former girlfriend and their two-year-old son. When he receives an urgent call that Chris, his drug-addicted and chronically drunk brother, is being questioned by the sheriff about his missing junkie business partner, Jay feels obliged to come to his rescue. We have 8 read-alikes for The 6th Lamentation, but non-members are limited to two results. To see the complete list of this book's read-alikes, you need to be a member. elders ( 1:19; 2:10; 4:16; 5:12), priests ( 1:4,19; 2:6,20; 4:16), prophets ( 2:9,20) and commoners ( 2:10-12; 3:48; 4:6) alike. Like the book of Job, Lamentations pictures a man of God puzzling over the results of evil and suffering in the world. However, while Job dealt with unexplained evil, Jeremiah lamented a tragedy entirely of Jerusalem’s making. The people of this once great city experienced the judgment of theWhether the death of Henry spells the end of Shardlake’s career remains to be seen. Like many veteran detectives, he yearns for a quieter life: “Perhaps it would be time to move out of London,” he ponders. “I could practise in one of the provincial towns: Bristol, perhaps, or Lichfield, where I was born.” Yet the book closes with a summons to Greenwich to attend the 13-year-old Elizabeth: there could be plenty more blood spilled in this series yet.

Parr did indeed write a confessional tract, entitled “ The Lamentation of a Sinner”; though there is no evidence that it was stolen or that any of its contents could be considered heretical. Yet the interpretation of heresy was as changeable as the wind in the 1540s, and the mere fact that the king’s wife should write a compromising religious work without his knowledge could be counted as a treasonable offence. Hillers, Delbert R. “Lamentations, Book of.” In The Anchor Bible Dictionary. Vol. 4. Edited by David Noel Freedman, 137–141. New York: Doubleday, 1992.Scholars are divided over whether the book is the work of one or multiple authors. [19] One clue pointing to multiple authors is that the gender and situation of the first-person witness changes – the narration is feminine in the first and second lamentation, and masculine in the third, while the fourth and fifth are eyewitness reports of Jerusalem's destruction; [20] conversely, the similarities of style, vocabulary, and theological outlook, as well as the uniform historical setting, are arguments for one author. [21] Later interpretation and influence [ edit ]