Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Response to Cate Frazier's Lamentations

I thought there were only two narrators: one who describes the suffering that people living in Jerusalem experienced, and another complaining to God about that suffering. The first one speaks more in the third person, while the latter speaker uses first person to talk directly to God. The real question I feel is why there would be different narrators. I think that the writer intended that a "face of god", like what Origen described (pg 83-85), spoke in the third person, while the city of Jerusalem represents the first person. This face of God may be angels, spirits, prophets, or God himself. It is never quite clear. These two narrators seem to speak in a call and response, but they are not actually talking to each other. Maybe the narrator wrote this way to represent both sides of the story.

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