Dr. Naama Golan is a Lecturer at the Kibbutzim College of Education and at Bar-Ilan University. She received her Ph.D. in Bible from Bar Ilan University, where she wrote on The Daniel Narratives: A Literary Analysis of Daniel 1-6. She has published a number of articles on Daniel, including "Metal and Stone: An Analogy between the Story of David and Goliath and the Story of Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream" (ZAW 2019), and "The Surprise and the Role reversal in the Lion's-Den Narrative" (Beit Mikra 2019).
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July 30, 2025
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Jerusalem’s destruction and the people’s suffering in the book of Lamentations is mostly seen as punishment for sin. But chapter two breaks the pattern: it accuses God not only of abandoning but of actively attacking His people with His own right hand. Perhaps counterintuitively, only by confronting YHWH in raw, honest terms—and with tears that flow like a stream—can the fire of God’s anger finally be cooled.
Jerusalem’s destruction and the people’s suffering in the book of Lamentations is mostly seen as punishment for sin. But chapter two breaks the pattern: it accuses God not only of abandoning but of actively attacking His people with His own right hand. Perhaps counterintuitively, only by confronting YHWH in raw, honest terms—and with tears that flow like a stream—can the fire of God’s anger finally be cooled.
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of a statue made of four metals in Daniel 2 was composed using Persian and Greek historiographic imagery. The crushing of the statue by a stone mountain alludes to the story of the golden calf, and is a message of hope to the Judeans that God will eventually crush their Greek oppressors.
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of a statue made of four metals in Daniel 2 was composed using Persian and Greek historiographic imagery. The crushing of the statue by a stone mountain alludes to the story of the golden calf, and is a message of hope to the Judeans that God will eventually crush their Greek oppressors.
