Reading Lamentations Intertextually (Paperback)

Introduction, Brittany N. Melton (Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA) and Heath A. Thomas (Oklahoma Baptist University, USA) Part One: Lamentations in Dialogue with the Torah 1. Exodus 32-34 and Lamentations: A Comparison of Sin, Punishment, and Confession, Alison Lo (Bethel Seminary, USA) 2. 'Away! Unclean! Do not Touch!': Defiled and Defiling Priests in Lamentations, Samuel E. Balentine (Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA) 3. The Ostrich and the Sword: Reading the City-Lament of Lamentations Intertextually with the Wilderness Wanderings of the Book of Numbers, Richard S. Briggs (Durham University, UK) 4. Chaos and Order: Lamentations and Deuteronomy as Responses to Destruction and Exile, Elizabeth Boase (University of Divinity, Australia) Part Two: Lamentations in Dialogue with the Prophets 5. Out of Sight, but not out of Mind (2 Kings 23:27): Reading 1-2 Kings with Lamentations, J. Andrew Dearman (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) 6. 'I am He, Your Comforter': Second Isaiah's Pervasive Voice as Intertextual 'Answer' to Lamentations' Divine Silence, Katie M. Heffelfinger (Church of Ireland Theological Institute, the Republic of Ireland) 7. The Afflicted Man in Lamentations 3 as Comrade to Jeremiah, Christl M. Maier (Philipps University of Marburg, Germany & Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 8. The Sound and the Fury: Women and Suffering in Ezekiel and Lamentations, Amy Kalmanofsky (Jewish Theological Seminary, USA) 9. Zechariah's Intertextual Reversal of Lamentations, Michael R. Stead (Moore Theological College, Australia) Part Three: Lamentations in Dialogue with the Writings 10. Models for Prayer in Lamentations and Psalms, John Goldingay (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) 11. Verse and Voice in Lamentations 3 and Psalm 119, David Reimer (University of St Andrews, UK) 12. Debating Suffering: The Voices of Lamentations Personified in Job's Dialogue, Will Kynes (Samford University, USA) 13. All is Decay: Intertextual Links between Lamentations 5 and Ecclesiastes 12:1-7, Katharine J. Dell (University of Cambridge, UK) 14. Conspicuous Females and an Inconspicuous God: The Distinctive Characterization of Women and God in the Megilloth, Brittany N. Melton (Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA) Part Four: Lamentations in Dialogue Beyond the Hebrew Bible 15. Lamentations at Qumran, Gideon R. Kotze (North-West University, South Africa) 16. From Anonymity to Biography: Jeremiah as a Character Memorizing the Past in LamLXX, Antje Labahn (North-West University, South Africa and Privatdozentin at College of Theology Wuppertal/Bethel, Germany) 17. 'Let us Test and Examine our Ways, and Return to the Lord': Josephus' Interpretations of Lamentations, Honora Howell Chapman (California State University, Fresno, USA) 18. Jesus and Jerusalem: Christological Interpretation and Lamentations in the Church, Robin A. Parry (Wipf & Stock Publishers, USA) 19. The Rabbis Talk Back Through the Prophets: Intertextuality, Lamentations, and Divine Mourning, Heath A. Thomas (Oklahoma Baptist University, USA) 20. Reading Lamentations After the Shoah: A Mandate to Question, Hemchand Gossai (Northern Virginia Community College, USA) Bibliography Index