In a Strange Land: The Necessity of Lament with Sarah Bachelard

In a Strange Land: The Necessity of Lament with Sarah Bachelard

When the people of Jerusalem were exiled to Babylon in the 6th century BCE, their lament – expressed in psalms of exile – functioned a means of coming to terms with their loss, bewilderment and dispossession. At one level, this agony of the conquered may seem far from our experience. But in another way it […]