Journal of Biblical Literature, January 1st, 2001
Surviving Lamentations: Catastrophe, Lament, and Protest in the Afterlife of a Biblical Book, by Tod Linafelt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xi + 180. $29.00.
Linafelt's study of Lamentations is remarkable in a number of respects. It proposes refreshing reinterpretations of the genre, purpose, and theological significance of the biblical book. It explores a history of subsequent reuse and reinterpretation of Lamentations in subsequent texts from Second Isaiah. It reverses the usual backward direction of diachronic studies through a literary past of a biblical text and, inste...
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