Table of Contents
Preface
LeAnn Snow Flesher and Carol J. Dempsey
Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Part I
Hear this Word that I Take up over You in Lamentation (Amos 5:1):
Lamentation Themes in the Book of Amos
Jason H. Radine, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
A Study of the References to BaT'-'ammi in Jer 8:18-23: A Gendered
Lamentation
Ahida Calderón Pilarski, Saint Anselm College
Micah 1:1-16 and 7:1-10: A Poet's Cry of the Heart in the midst of
Tragic Vision
Carol J. Dempsey, University of Portland
My God ...Why? Questioning the Action and Inaction of YHWH in the
Psalms
Andrew Davies
Boxed by the Orthodox: The Function of Lamentations 3:22-39 in the
Message of the Book
Walter C. Bouzard
"Uttering Precious Rather than Worthless Words": Divine Patience
and Impatience with Lament in Isaiah and Jeremiah
Mark J. Boda, McMaster University
A Critique Against God?: Reading Psalm 80 in the Context of
Vindication
Hee Suk Kim, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
One Good "Turn" Deserves Another? Rhetorical Strategy in Joel
2:12-17
Joel Barker
Tricksters and Martyrs: Reading Daniel 9 as Lament within the
Context of the Entire Book
LeAnn Snow Flesher, American Baptist Seminary of the
West/Graduate Theological Union
Can the Unrighteous Lament? Lament Speech and Reconciliation
Elna K. Solvang, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN
The Poetic Beauty of Grief in Lamentations
Victoria Hoffer, Yale University
Bibliography
Index of References
Index of Authors
Born out of two years of presentations in the Biblical Hebrew Poetry Section at SBL, this volume discusses 'voice'.
Carol J. Dempsey, OP, is Professor of Theology (Biblical
Studies/Old Testament) at the University of Portland, USA.
LeAnn Snow Flesher is an ordained minister with the American
Baptist Churches, USA, and Professor of Old Testament and Academic
Dean at the American Baptist Seminary of the West, USA.
Mark J. Boda is Professor of Old Testament at McMaster Divinity
College, Canada.
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