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Lamentations in ancient and contemporary cultural contexts /

Personal tragedy and communal catastrophe up to the present day are universal human experiences that call forth lament. Lament singers--from the most ancient civilizations to traditional oral poets to the biblical psalmists and poets of Lamentations to popular singers across the globe--have always r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lee, Nancy C., Mandolfo, Carleen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Atlanta, GA : Society of Biblical Literature, ©2008.
Colección:Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ; no. 43.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Singers of Lamentations: (a)scribing (de)claiming poets and prophets / Nancy C. Lee
  • Talking back: the perseverance of justice in Lamentation / Carleen Mandolfo
  • Surviving Lamentations (one more time) / Tod Linafelt
  • Lament and the arts of resistance: public and hidden transcripts in Lamentations 5 / Robert Williamson, Jr.
  • Priceless gain of penitence: from communal lament to penitential prayer in the "exilic" liturgy of Israel / Mark J. Boda
  • Articulate body: the language of suffering in the laments of the individual / Amy C. Cottrill
  • 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
  • Revival of lament in medieval Piyyuṭim / 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 Arapović
  • Lamenting the dead in Iraq and South Africa: transitioning from individual trauma to collective mourning performances / Kimberly Wedeven Segall
  • 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
  • Lament as wake-up call (class analysis and historical possibility) / Walter Brueggemann.