Texts > Tanakh > Writings > Lamentations

Introduction

• 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

• 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

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 Refusal of a Conclusion in the Book of Lamentations - by Tod Linafelt, Journal of Biblical Literature 120.2 (2001) 340-343

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)
• 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