Lamentations: An Introduction and Study Guide
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Book of How -- Placement in the canon -- Tradition of authorship -- A brief overview of Lamentations -- Attempts to synchronize Lamentations -- Outline of the guide -- 1 The literature of Lamentations: Poetic art -- Lamentations as poetry -- Extern...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | T&T Clark's Study Guides to the Old Testament Ser.
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible
B Electronic books B Bible-Meditations |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Book of How -- Placement in the canon -- Tradition of authorship -- A brief overview of Lamentations -- Attempts to synchronize Lamentations -- Outline of the guide -- 1 The literature of Lamentations: Poetic art -- Lamentations as poetry -- External structure -- Alphabetic and acrostic poems -- Internal structure -- Parallelism -- Enjambment -- Qînah metre or rhythm -- Internal stylistic features -- Speaking voices -- Personification -- Figurative language and imagery -- 2 The literature of Lamentations: Composition history and matters of form -- The genre of Lamentations -- Laments and dirges -- The city lament -- Penitential prayer -- City lament over Zion -- Penitential Lament over Zion -- The formation of grief -- 3 The historical background of Lamentations -- Matters of composition -- Inner-biblical correspondence -- Composition history and the evidence of individual poems -- Composition history and the role of a redactor -- Socio-historical context: The background of war and systemic collapse -- The remnant in Judah -- The exiles in Babylonia -- Sitz im Leben: Mourning rituals in the ancient Near East and the Bible -- 4 Theological and contextual readings in Lamentations -- Theological discussions -- Lamentations and its theological traditions -- The theological message of Lamentations -- Theologies of Lamentations -- Socio-contextual readings -- Trauma studies and Lamentations -- Feminist criticism and Lamentations -- Post-colonial criticism and Lamentations -- Reception history and Lamentations -- Reception in the biblical period -- Reception in the post-biblical period -- Reception in the fine arts: Music, literature and art -- 5 Readings in Lamentations -- A text of terror -- Post-colonial awareness: Silencing and the voices of the marginalized. |
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| ISBN: | 0567696944 |