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Chorus in the dark : the voices of the Book of Lamentations / Kim Lan Nguyen.
Author
Nguyẽ̂n, Kim Lân
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Sheffield, UK : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013.
Description
xiv, 244 pages ; 25 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
BS1535.52 .N48 2013
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Subject(s)
Bible Lamentations
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Series
Hebrew Bible monographs ; 54.
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Hebrew Bible Monographs ; 54
Notes
Revision of the author's thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010. The dissertation's title is Lady Zion and the Man : the use of personae in the book of Lamentations.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-231) and indexes.
Contents
1. Introduction. Date of composition
Authorship
Composition
The voices
Purpose of this study. Personae in Lamentations
Goals of this study
2. Genres of Lamentations. Genre of Lamentations 5
Genre of Lamentations 1, 2 and 4. Dirge or communal lament ?
Lamentations and Mesopotamian city laments
Genre of Lamentations 3. Communal lament or individual lament?
3. Personification of Jerusalem as a woman : origin. Aloysius Fitzgerald's thesis : city as goddess married to the city's patron God
Elaine Follis's thesis : Athena, the daughter of Zeus
F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp's thesis : the weeping goddess
A new approach : city as a mourning virgin
4. Zion : protester, comforter or scapegoat? Personification of Zion as a means to engage the audience
A means for expressing frustration and anger
Personification of Zion as a means to convey new insight
5. The man of Lamentations 3 : identity. Existing interpretations of the man's identity. Literal interpretation : Jeremiah, Jehoiachin or Zedekiah
Personification. The man as personification of Jerusalem
The man as personification of Israel
The man as personification of Exile
Representative interpretation : Jeremiah, Everyman, Soldier or Strong Man, a prominent inhabitant of Jerusalem
A new approach : the man as a type figure of Davidic kings
6. The man of Lamentations 3 : mission. Psychological function. The man as a voice of communal suffering, physical suffering, emotional suffering, theological struggle
God as the enemy
The man as a means to establish solidarity
Didactic function. Instruction
Theory versus feasibility : is the man's instruction practicable
Excursus : past suffering versus present suffering : the tenses of Lamentations 3.52-61
Theological function. Deuteronomic indictment
Status of the Covenant
7. Chorus in the dark : will there be a future? Zion and the man in the context of Lamentations. The lamenter's voice
The surviving community's voice
Zion and the man in the context of Lamentations. The man as a response to Zion
Zion and the man as two responses among others
The meaning of Lamentations.
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ISBN
1907534911
9781907534911
LCCN
2020303768
OCLC
862883226
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