Lamentations in ancient and contemporary cultural contexts / edited by Nancy C. Lee and Carleen Mandolfo.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Symposium series (Brill Academic Publishers) ; no. 43.Publication details: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature 2008Description: xii, 274 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 978-1-58983-357-9
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 224.3
Contents:
The biblical book of Lamentations. On writing a commentary on Lamentations / Adele Berlin -- Lamentations from sundry angles : a retrospective / F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp -- Voices arguing about meaning / Kathleen O'Connor -- The singers of Lamentations : (a)scribing (de)claiming poets and prophets / Nancy C. Lee -- Talking back : the perseverence of justice in lamentation / Carleen Mandolfo -- Surviving Lamentations (one more time) / Tod Linafelt -- Biblical lament : communal, penitential, individual.... Lament and the arts of resistance : public and hidden transcripts in Lamentations 5 / Robert Williamson Jr. -- The priceless gain of penitence : from communal lament to penitential prayer in the "exilic" liturgy of Israel / Mark J. Boda -- The articulate body : the language of suffering in the laments of the individual / Amy C. Cottrill -- Lament across cultures. Praise in the realm of death : the dynamics of hymn-singing in ancient Near Eastern lament ceremony / Erhard S. Gerstenberger -- Engaging Lamentations and The lament for the South : a cross-textual reading / Archie Chi Chung Lee -- The revival of lament in medieval Piyyuòtim / William Morrow -- The lament traditions of enslaved African American women and the lament traditions of the Hebrew Bible / Wilma Ann Bailey -- Selections from Between despair and lamentation / Borislav Arapoviâc -- Lamenting the dead in Iraq and South Africa : transitioning from individual trauma to collective mourning performances / Kimberly Wedeven Segall -- The poetry of Job as a resource for the articulation of embodied lament in the context of HIV and AIDS in South Africa / Gerald West -- A lament for New Orleans / Clyde Fant -- Retrospective/prospective, continuing relevance. Lament as wake-up call (class analysis and historical possibility) / Walter Brueggemann.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-254) and indexes.

The biblical book of Lamentations. On writing a commentary on Lamentations / Adele Berlin -- Lamentations from sundry angles : a retrospective / F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp -- Voices arguing about meaning / Kathleen O'Connor -- The singers of Lamentations : (a)scribing (de)claiming poets and prophets / Nancy C. Lee -- Talking back : the perseverence of justice in lamentation / Carleen Mandolfo -- Surviving Lamentations (one more time) / Tod Linafelt -- Biblical lament : communal, penitential, individual.... Lament and the arts of resistance : public and hidden transcripts in Lamentations 5 / Robert Williamson Jr. -- The priceless gain of penitence : from communal lament to penitential prayer in the "exilic" liturgy of Israel / Mark J. Boda -- The articulate body : the language of suffering in the laments of the individual / Amy C. Cottrill -- Lament across cultures. Praise in the realm of death : the dynamics of hymn-singing in ancient Near Eastern lament ceremony / Erhard S. Gerstenberger -- Engaging Lamentations and The lament for the South : a cross-textual reading / Archie Chi Chung Lee -- The revival of lament in medieval Piyyuòtim / William Morrow -- The lament traditions of enslaved African American women and the lament traditions of the Hebrew Bible / Wilma Ann Bailey -- Selections from Between despair and lamentation / Borislav Arapoviâc -- Lamenting the dead in Iraq and South Africa : transitioning from individual trauma to collective mourning performances / Kimberly Wedeven Segall -- The poetry of Job as a resource for the articulation of embodied lament in the context of HIV and AIDS in South Africa / Gerald West -- A lament for New Orleans / Clyde Fant -- Retrospective/prospective, continuing relevance. Lament as wake-up call (class analysis and historical possibility) / Walter Brueggemann.