This article analyzes John Calvin’s 1562–1563 lectures on Lamentations as a case study for exploring the role of biblical exegesis in creating and shaping what scholars such as Judith Pollmann have demonstrated to be early modern memory practices. Lamentations is not one of the better-known books of the Christian canon, and although it was central to Catholic Holy Week liturgies, it appears to have played little to no role in Reformation-era doctrinal and ecclesiastical controversies. In content, Calvin’s eighteen lectures on these five poems of lament are typical of Calvin’s historicizing approach to the Bible. Calvin shows deep appreciation for the events underlying the biblical text (in this case, he argues, the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians as a recent calamity) and seeks to relate the biblical past to the conditions of the present. But they can also be considered as a form of memory culture: an effort to engage with a past disaster that not only provides a negative object lesson for the present but, in addition, invites participation in a process of collective memory-making among Calvin’s sixteenth-century Genevan auditors and wider readership.

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记住耶路撒冷

本文分析了约翰·加尔文 1562-1563 年关于哀歌的演讲，以此作为案例研究，探索圣经释经在创造和塑造朱迪思·波尔曼等学者所证明的早期现代记忆实践中的作用。《哀歌》并不是基督教经典中最著名的书籍之一，尽管它是天主教圣周礼拜仪式的核心，但它似乎在宗教改革时期的教义和教会争论中几乎没有发挥任何作用。在内容上，加尔文关于这五首哀歌的十八次演讲是典型的加尔文对圣经的历史化方法。加尔文对圣经文本背后的事件表示深深的感激（他认为，在这种情况下，耶路撒冷沦陷为巴比伦人的近期灾难）并试图将圣经的过去与现在的情况联系起来。