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Titolo: |
Lamentations in ancient and contemporary cultural contexts / / edited by Nancy C. Lee and Carleen Mandolfo
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Pubblicazione: | Atlanta, : Society of Biblical Literature, c2008 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | xii, 274 p |
Disciplina: | 224/.306 |
Soggetto topico: | Laments in the Bible |
Elegiac poetry - History and criticism | |
Altri autori: |
LeeNancy C
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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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Lamentations in ancient and contemporary cultural contexts ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-58983-367-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819640303321 |
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