Texts > Tanakh > Writings > Lamentations

Introduction

• Lamentations - by Charles M. Cameron, Evangel 12.1 (1994) 2–4
• The Life and Literature of the Early Period - chapter 21 of Gerald A. Larue, Old Testament Life and Literature (1968)

Lamentations 1

• Reading Voices: Personification, Dialogism, and the Reader of Lamentations 1 - by Charles William Miller, Biblical Interpretation 9.4 (2001) 393–408; abstract publicly viewable, full text viewable by subscribers or for purchase

Lamentations 3

• Postmodernism and the Deus absconditis in Lamentations 3 - by Jerry A. Gladson, Biblica 91 (2010) 321–334
• The Lament and the Lamenter: Lamentations 3:1–23 - by James T. Dennison, Jr.; Kerux 12.3 (1997); full text

Lamentations 4

• The Question of Indirect Touch: Lam 4,14; Ezek 44,19 and Hag 2,12–13- by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Biblica 87.1

Lamentations 5

• Lamentations 5: The Seventh Acrostic - by Philippe Guillaume, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 9.16 (2009)

Canonization

• Gender and Lamentations: 4Q179 and the Canonization of the Book of Lamentations - by Tal Ilan, lectio difficilior 2/2008

Composition

• Linguistic Evidence for the Date of Lamentations - by F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 26 (1998) 1–36

Gender Issues

• Gender and Lamentations: 4Q179 and the Canonization of the Book of Lamentations - by Tal Ilan, lectio difficilior 2/2008

Miscellaneous Articles and Essays

• Spelling Out No-Where ( HTML | PDF ) - by Ulrike Bail, lectio dificilior (2003.1)
• The Lamentations Project: Biblical Mourning through Modern Montage - by B. Morse, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 28.1 (2003) 113–127; abstract with full text options
• The Message of Lamentations - by Alan Cooper, Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 28 (2001) 1–18

Poetic Features

• In Search of Prosodic Domains in Ancient Hebrew Verse: Lamentations 1–5 and the Prosodic Structure Hypothesis - by John F. Hobbins, International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Rome, July 2009

Book Reviews

• Berlin, Adele, Lamentations (Old Testament Library; Westminster John Knox, 2002)
  • Reviewed by Mark E. McEntire, Review of Biblical Literature (2003)
  • Reviewed by Ralph W. Klein, Currents in Theology and Mission (October 2005)
• Boase, Elizabeth, The Fulfilment of Doom?: The Dialogic Interaction between the Book of Lamentations and the Pre-Exilic/Early Exilic Prophetic Literature (T&T Clark, 2006) - reviewed by Bradley C. Gregory, Review of Biblical Literature (2007)
• Linafelt, Tod, Surviving Lamentations: Catastrophe, Lament, and Protest in the Afterlife of a Biblical Book - reviewed by Kathleen M. O’Connor, Review of Biblical Literature
• Renkema, Johan, Lamentations (Historical Commentary on the Old Testament) - reviewed by Charles William Miller, Review of Biblical Literature