Chorus in the dark
Subtitle: the voices of the Book of Lamentations
By: Kim Lan Nguyen
Series: Hebrew Bible Monographs -- 54; Hebrew Bible monographs -- 54.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Sheffield, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781907534911
Subjects: Klagelieder Jeremias; Criticism, interpretation; Exegese; Bible; Personifikation
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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction. Date of composition; title: Authorship; title: Composition; title: The voices; title: Purpose of this study. Personae in Lamentations; title: Goals of this study; title: 2. Genres of Lamentations. Genre of Lamentations 5; title: Genre of Lamentations 1, 2 and 4. Dirge or communal lament ?; title: Lamentations and Mesopotamian city laments; title: Genre of Lamentations 3. Communal lament or individual lament?; title: 3. Personification of Jerusalem as a woman : origin. Aloysius Fitzgerald's thesis : city as goddess married to the city's patron God; title: Elaine Follis's thesis : Athena, the daughter of Zeus; title: F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp's thesis : the weeping goddess; title: A new approach : city as a mourning virgin; title: 4. Zion : protester, comforter or scapegoat? Personification of Zion as a means to engage the audience; title: A means for expressing frustration and anger; title: Personification of Zion as a means to convey new insight; title: 5. The man of Lamentations 3 : identity. Existing interpretations of the man's identity. Literal interpretation : Jeremiah, Jehoiachin or Zedekiah; title: Personification. The man as personification of Jerusalem; title: The man as personification of Israel; title: The man as personification of Exile; title: Representative interpretation : Jeremiah, Everyman, Soldier or Strong Man, a prominent inhabitant of Jerusalem; title: A new approach : the man as a type figure of Davidic kings; title: 6. The man of Lamentations 3 : mission. Psychological function. The man as a voice of communal suffering, physical suffering, emotional suffering, theological struggle; title: God as the enemy; title: The man as a means to establish solidarity; title: Didactic function. Instruction; title: Theory versus feasibility : is the man's instruction practicable; title: Excursus : past suffering versus present suffering : the tenses of Lamentations 3.52-61; title: Theological function. Deuteronomic indictment; title: Status of the Covenant; title: 7. Chorus in the dark : will there be a future? Zion and the man in the context of Lamentations. The lamenter's voice; title: The surviving community's voice; title: Zion and the man in the context of Lamentations. The man as a response to Zion; title: Zion and the man as two responses among others; title: The meaning of Lamentations.