Jesus Wept: The Significance of Jesus' Laments in the New Testament

✍ Scribed by Rebekah Eklund

• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 226
• Series: The Library of New Testament Studies
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Lament does not seem to be a pervasive feature of the New Testament, particularly when viewed in relation to the Old Testament. A careful investigation of the New Testament, however, reveals that it thoroughly incorporates the pattern of Old Testament lament into its proclamation of the gospel, especially in the person of Jesus Christ as he both prays and embodies lament.
As an act that fundamentally calls upon God to be faithful to God's promises to Israel and to the church, lament in the New Testament becomes a prayer of longing for God's kingdom, which has been inaugurated in the ministry and resurrection of Jesus, fully to come.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowlegments
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Bridging from Lament in the Old Testament to Lament in the New
I. Individual Lament Psalms
II. Divine Presence and Hiddenness
III. Protest and Penitence
IV. Lament in Transition: From Old to New
V. Defining Lament in the New Testament
a. Quotations of or Allusions to the Lament Psalms
b. Texts that Evoke the Function and Ethos of Lament
Chapter 2: The Laments of Jesus in the Fourfold Gospel
I. Introduction: Jesus and the Psalms of Lament
a. Unity and Diversity: Lament in the Four Gospels
b. Did Jesus ‘Really’ Pray the Psalms?
II. Jesus’ Petition in the Garden of Gethsemane
a. Jesus’ Distress in the Garden
b. My Soul Is Very Sad: Jesus and Psalm 42
c. Take This Cup: Jesus’ Petition
d. John and the Gethsemane ‘Fragment’
III. Jesus Wept: The Death of Lazarus (John 11.17-44)
IV. Lament from the Cross
a. ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’: Matthew, Mark, and Psalm 22
b. ‘Father, into your hands I commend my spirit’: Luke and Psalm 31
c. ‘I am thirsty… It is finished’: John, Psalm 69, and Psalm 22
V. Conclusion
Chapter 3: Son of Man, Son of Abraham: Jesus Laments as a Human Being and an Israelite
I. Anthropological and Christological Lament
II. Son of Adam: Jesus Laments as a Human Being
a. Giving Voice to Pain
b. Hearers and Over-hearers
c. Pressing Toward Change
III. Son of Abraham, Son of David: Jesus Laments as an Israelite
Chapter 4: King, Priest, Prophet: Jesus Laments as the Messiah
I. Lament and Messianic Hope
II. Messianic Identity and the Threefold Office
III. The King of the Jews Laments
a. Lament, Power, and Feminist/Womanist Challenges
IV. A Mighty Cry and Tears: The Lament of the High Priest
a. A Mighty Cry and Tears
b. Rescued Out of Death
c. Heard from His Reverence
V. The Prophetic Laments of Jesus
a. Intercessory Lament of the Prophet-mediator
b. Jesus and Prophetic Intercession
c. Jesus Mourns over Jerusalem
Chapter 5: Divine Lament
I. Divine Mourning in the Old Testament
II. Divine Impassibility and Jesus’ ‘Cry of Dereliction’
a. ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’
b. Strong Enough to Save: A God Who Mourns, Hears, and Helps
III. Sighs too Deep for Words: Lamenting with the Holy Spirit
a. The Spirit of Adoption: Assurance of God’s Hearing
b. Groaning and Waiting in Hope
c. Sighs too Deep for Words: The Spirit Laments-with
Chapter 6: Christian Lament and Inaugurated Eschatology
I. Eschatological Vindication: The Second Temple Background
II. Blessed Are Those Who Mourn: Jesus’ Ministry as the Consolation of Israel
III. Your Kingdom Come
IV. Grieving with Hope: Ambrose of Milan and 1 Thessalonians 4.13
V. Lament and Patient Endurance
VI. Answering Martin Buber’s Challenge: Between the Now and the Not Yet
a. David Kelsey
b. Karl Barth
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Lament as a Christian Practice
Bibliography
Index of References
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects