Kristin Swenson
Kristin Swenson is visiting associate professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Living through Pain: Psalms and the Search for Wholeness (Baylor University Press, 2005) and Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked About Book of All Time (Harper, 2010). She is presently working on a historical novel of ancient Babylon and Persia.
Jeremiah and Loss
Jeremiah lived through and spoke to experiences of loss both individual and collective in Judah during the tumultuous decades at the end of the seventh and beginning of the sixth centuries B.C.E.
