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The Book of Lamentations : a meditation and translation / David R. Slavitt.
- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Bible. O.T. Lamentations. English.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ninth of Av--Meditations.
- Ninth of Av.
- Jews--History.
- Jews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (103 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- More than a structural or mnemonic device, Slavitt argues, the acrostics are "a serious assertion that the language itself is speaking, that the speech is inspired, and that there is, beyond all the disaster and pain the book recounts, an intricacy and an orderly coherence.".
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Translation
- Part I - Meditation
- Part II - Lamentations
- Bibliographical Note.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-88).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-7690-7
- OCLC:
- 51543329
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