Lamentations in ancient and contemporary cultural contexts / edited by Nancy C. Lee and Carleen Mandolfo.

English and Hebrew with English text parallel.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254) and indexes.

On writing a commentary on Lamentations / Adele Berlin -- Lamentations from sundry angles: a retrospective / F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp -- Voices arguing about meaning / Kathleen O'Connor -- Singers of Lamentations: (a)scribing (de)claiming poets and prophets / Nancy C. Lee -- Talking back: the perseverance of justice in Lamentation / Carleen Mandolfo -- Surviving Lamentations (one more time) / Tod Linafelt -- Lament and the arts of resistance: public and hidden transcripts in Lamentations 5 / Robert Williamson, Jr. -- Priceless gain of penitence: from communal lament to penitential prayer in the "exilic" liturgy of Israel / Mark J. Boda -- Articulate body: the language of suffering in the laments of the individual / Amy C. Cottrill -- Praise in the realm of death: the dynamics of hymn-singing in ancient Near Eastern lament ceremony / Erhard S. Gerstenberger -- Engaging Lamentations and The lament for the South: a cross-textual reading / Archie Chi Chung Lee -- Revival of lament in medieval Piyyuṭim / William Morrow -- The lament traditions of enslaved African American women and the lament traditions of the Hebrew Bible / Wilma Ann Bailey -- Selections from Between despair and lamentation / Borislav Arapović -- Lamenting the dead in Iraq and South Africa: transitioning from individual trauma to collective mourning performances / Kimberly Wedeven Segall -- Poetry of Job as a resource for the articulation of embodied lament in the context of HIV and AIDS in South Africa / Gerald West -- A lament for New Orleans / Clyde Fant -- Lament as wake-up call (class analysis and historical possibility) / Walter Brueggemann.

Personal tragedy and communal catastrophe up to the present day are universal human experiences that call forth lament. Lament singers--from the most ancient civilizations to traditional oral poets to the biblical psalmists and poets of Lamentations to popular singers across the globe--have always raised the cry of human suffering, giving voice to the voiceless, illuminating injustice, or pleading for divine help. This volume gathers an international collection of essays on biblical lament and Lamentations, illuminating their genres, artistry, purposes, and significant place in the history and theologies of ancient Israel. It also explores lament across cultures, both those influenced by biblical traditions and those not, as the practices of composition, performance, and interpretation of life's suffering continue to shed light on our knowledge of biblical lament. --From publisher's description.

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