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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819640303321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Atlanta, : Society of Biblical Literature, c2008

ISBN

1-58983-367-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xii, 274 p

Collana

Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; ; no. 43

Altri autori (Persone)

LeeNancy C

MandolfoCarleen

Disciplina

224/.306

Soggetti

Laments in the Bible

Elegiac poetry - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-254) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.