Unified Diversity: The Cultural Trauma Narrative of Lamentations

One of the central questions in Lamentations scholarship is how, if at all, its multiple perspectives fit together. This paper commends a reading of Lamentations that simultaneously holds together the parts and the whole, following the book’s acrostic structure. Each poem has its own perspective, bu...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:  
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. VerfasserIn: Alsene-Parker, Megan D. (Verfasst von)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Verfügbarkeit prüfen: HBZ Gateway
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Veröffentlicht: 2025
In: Biblica
Jahr: 2025, Band: 106, Heft: 1, Seiten: 27-53
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Bibel. Klagelieder / Einheit / Verschiedenheit / Perspektive / Trauma
IxTheo Notationen:HB Altes Testament
Online-Zugang: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:One of the central questions in Lamentations scholarship is how, if at all, its multiple perspectives fit together. This paper commends a reading of Lamentations that simultaneously holds together the parts and the whole, following the book’s acrostic structure. Each poem has its own perspective, but they also share themes that draw them together into a literary whole. Lamentations thus creates a unifying cultural trauma narrative that, following Jerusalem’s fall in 587 BCE, provided the Judahite community unity amid its diversity. This article’s approach provides contemporary interpreters with a fresh framework for reading Lamentations’ distinct poems as an integrated whole.
ISSN:2385-2062
Enthält:Enthalten in: Biblica
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2143/BIB.106.1.3294357