Eikha (Lamentations) with Ibn Ezra and Kaspi: The Da'at Tanakh Series

Composed in the aftermath of the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE, Sefer Eikha gives sustained poetic form to the catastrophe that ended the kingdom of Judah, its sacrificial worship, and the framework of covenant life as it had been known for centuries. Across five chapters of extraordinary compression, the book moves through the desolation of a ruined capital, the theological crisis of a people whose God has become their adversary, the individual sufferer's descent into darkness, and the halting, uncertain return to hope. This volume of THE DA'AT TANAKH SERIES presents the Hebrew text of Sefer Eikha with a fresh English translation and a synthesised commentary drawn from Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra (1089-1167) and Rabbi Yosef ibn Kaspi (1279-1345) - two of the most rigorous voices in the worldly tradition, who read Tanakh with the full resources of grammar, philology, philosophy, and history. Together their commentaries illuminate a book that does not flinch from the hardest question of biblical faithfulness: what it means to survive the discovery that God Himself has turned against His people.

Pagina's: 92, Paperback, Independently published