Bibliographic information:
Giffone, Benjamin. “The Timeless, Unifying Rhetoric of Lamentations.” Old Testament Essays 25 (2012): 534-558.
Description:
Description:
Certain poetic features of Lamentations contribute to an ongoing preservative/cohesive function in faith communities. In form and content the reader/audience is confronted with completeness—a nation’s complete destruction, the complete range of human emotion—and with incompleteness—a fragmented people, broken institutions, unanswered theological questions.
Publisher:
Old Testament Essays (website: http://content.ajarchive.org/cdm4/index_10109919.php?CISOROOT=/10109919)