Gideon R. Kotzé. Images and Ideas of Debated Readings in the Book of Lamentations. Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, 2020.I noted the publication of the book here.In Images and Ideas of Debated Readings in the Book of Lamentations, Gideon R. Kotzé hones in on several cases of disputed readings in the book of Lamentations where scholarship has not reached a consensus. In a number of places, the textual representatives appear strange to modern interpreters, so these “debated readings” are often emended with recourse to comparative philology, or according to the reader’s poetic sensibilities. Kotzé, however, asks readers to reconsider when and for what reason emendation is necessary. If the text comes from a cultural world far different than our own, then we ought to anchor those cases in the same world that produced them. ...
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