Prof. Liz Boase is Dean of the School of Graduate Research at the University of Divinity in Australia. She holds a BAppSci, BD (Honours), and a PhD from Murdoch University (Perth, Australia). Her research focuses on trauma studies and the Hebrew Bible, with particular interest in Jeremiah, Lamentations, and prophetic literature. Her publications include Trauma Theories: Refractions in the Book of Jeremiah (Sheffield Phoenix, 2024), which received the ANZATS Established Scholars Book Prize in 2025, and The Fulfilment of Doom? The Dialogic Interaction between the Book of Lamentation and the Pre-Exilic/Early Exilic Prophetic Literature (T&T Clark, 2006).
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Was it based on an ancient tradition? Inspired by stylistic similarities? A strategy to give legitimacy to a text with controversial portrayals of God? Or does it reflect a broader cultural shift toward authorial attribution in the Second Temple period? And finally—how does this attribution change how we read the Book of Lamentations?
Was it based on an ancient tradition? Inspired by stylistic similarities? A strategy to give legitimacy to a text with controversial portrayals of God? Or does it reflect a broader cultural shift toward authorial attribution in the Second Temple period? And finally—how does this attribution change how we read the Book of Lamentations?
