The Singers of Lamentations: Cities Under Siege, from Ur to Jerusalem to Sarajevo
The author analyzes the poetic songs of biblical Lamentations with oral-poetic folkloric method for the first time with surprising results. Contemporary lament poems are then compared from recent post-war Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina about suffering in cities under siege. Oral-poetic and socio-rhetorical methods illumine two lead singers in dialogue in a mourning context, employing formulas and themes of dirge, psalmic and prophetic traditions in their compositions, but infusing these with their individual artistry to respond to Jerusalem's destruction. Poets through history and across cultures share common ground in how they render the suf…
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- ISBN: 978-90-04-12312-0
- EAN: 9789004123120
- Produktnummer: 1425026
- Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 234 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B16.6 cm x D2.1 cm 503 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 60
- Gewicht: 503
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Nancy C. Lee, Ph.D. at Union Theological Seminary/PSCE in Virginia, Master of Theology at the Columbia Theological Seminary, is Professor at Elmhurst College in Hebrew Bible; Niebuhr Distinguished Chair.
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