The Book of Lamentations : a meditation and translation / David R. Slavitt.

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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Description
1 online resource (103 p.)

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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.".
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-88).
Language note
English
Contents
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on the Translation
  • Part I - Meditation
  • Part II - Lamentations
  • Bibliographical Note.
ISBN
0-8018-7690-7
OCLC
  • 51543329
  • 923191395
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