Klage als Gotteslob aus der Tiefe

Christiane de Vos examines the self-conception and the image of God conveyed by the person who is praying in the individual complaint psalms, the largest group of texts in the biblical Psalms. In order to understand the scope of the lament from a paradigmatic perspective, she begins with a cursory analysis of three very different individual complaint psalms (Ps 38, 56, 88). She then studies the linguistic phraseology and the theological ideas in the entire group of texts in order provide a systematic description of the essential theological features of the relationship between God and human being are to be found in the individual complaints.