Chorus in the dark : the voices of the Book of Lamentations / Kim Lan Nguyen.

Author
Nguyẽ̂n, Kim Lân [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Sheffield, UK : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013.
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xiv, 244 pages ; 25 cm.

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    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.
    ISBN
    • 1907534911
    • 9781907534911
    LCCN
    2020303768
    OCLC
    862883226
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