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Lamentations in ancient and contemporary cultural contexts / edited by Nancy C. Lee and Carleen Mandolfo.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 43.
- Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 43
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Laments in the Bible.
- Elegiac poetry--History and criticism.
- Elegiac poetry.
- Bible. Lamentations--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 274 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Laments from the Sudan, New Orleans, and Iraq
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part 1: The Biblical Book of Lamentations
- On Writing a Commentary on Lamentations
- Lamentations from Sundry Angles: A Retrospective
- Voices Arguing about Meaning
- The Singers of Lamentations: (A)Scribing (De)Claiming Poets and Prophets
- Talking Back: The Perseverance of Justice In Lamentation
- Surviving Lamentations (One More Time)
- Part 2: Biblical Lament: Communal, Penitential, Individual …
- Lament and the Arts of Resistance: Public and Hidden Transcripts in Lamentations
- The Priceless Gain of Penitence: From Communal Lament to Penitential Prayer in the "Exilic" Liturgy of Israel
- The Articulate Body: The Language of Suffering in the Laments of the Individual
- Part 3: Lament across Cultures
- Praise in the Realm of Death: The Dynamics of Hymn-Singing in Ancient Near Eastern Lament Ceremony
- Engaging Lamentations and The Lament for the South: A Cross-Textual Reading
- The Revival of Lament in Medieval Piyyuttim
- The Lament Traditions of Enslaved African American Women and the Lament Traditions of the Hebrew Bible
- Selections from Between Despair and Lamentation
- Lamenting the Dead in Iraq and South Africa: Transitioning from Individual Trauma to Collective Mourning Performances
- The Poetry of Job as a Resource for the Articulation of Embodied Lament in the Context of HIV and AIDS in South Africa
- A Lament for New Orleans
- Part 4: Retrospective/Prospective, Continuing Relevance
- Lament as Wake-up Call (Class Analysis and Historical Possibility)
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index of Ancient Sources
- Index of Modern Authors.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-254) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-58983-367-8
- OCLC:
- 922967726
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