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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2023

Joshua A. Berman
Joshua A. Berman
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Bar-Ilan University, Israel
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The Book of Lamentations , pp. xv - xviii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Commentaries

The following are the major commentaries on Lamentations cited in this volume:

Assis, Elie. Lamentations: From Despair to Prayer Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2022.Google Scholar
Bergant, Dianne. Lamentations. AOTC. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Berges, Ulrich. Klagelieder. HThkAT. Freiburg: Verlag Herder, 2012.Google Scholar
Berlin, Adele. Lamentations. OTL. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002.Google Scholar
Boecker, Hans Jochen. Klagelieder. ZBK 21. Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 1985.Google Scholar
Dobbs-Allsopp, F.W. Lamentations. IBC. Westminster: John Knox Press, 2002.Google Scholar
Gordis, Robert. The Song of Songs and Lamentations: a Study, Modern Translation and Commentary. Rev. and augm. Ed. New York: Ktav, 1974.Google Scholar
Hillers, Delbert. Lamentations. 2nd Revised Ed. AB 7A. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.Google Scholar
House, Paul R. and Garrett, Duane. Song of Songs and Lamentations. WBC 23B. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2016.Google Scholar
Huey, F.B. Jeremiah, Lamentations: An Exegetical and Theological Exposition of Holy Scripture. NAC 16. Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1993.Google Scholar
Kaiser, Otto. ‘Klagelieder.’ Pages 93–198 in Mueller, Hans-Peter, Kaiser, Otto and Loader, James A., Das Hohelied, Klagelieder, Das Buch Ester. Fourth fully revised edition. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1992.Google Scholar
Klein, Jacob. Lamentations [Hebrew]. Miqra Le-Yisrael. Jerusalem: Magnes, 2017.Google Scholar
Kraus, Hans-Joachim. Klagelieder (Threni). BKAT 20. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1956.Google Scholar
Parry, Robin. Lamentations. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.Google Scholar
Provan, Iain. Lamentations. NCB. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991.Google Scholar
Renkema, Johan. Lamentations. HCOT. Leuven: Peeters, 1998.Google Scholar
Salters, R.B. Lamentations. ICC. London: T&T Clark, 2011.Google Scholar
Weiser, Artur. “Klagelieder.” Pages 295–370 in Ringgren, Helmer, Weiser, Artur, and Zimmerli, Walther, Sprüche, Prediger, Das Hohe Lied, Klagelieder, Das Buch Esther. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1962.Google Scholar
Wiesmann, Herman. Die Klagelieder. Frankfurt: Philosophisch-theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen, 1954.Google Scholar

Monograph Studies

Many of the works cited below effectively comment on large parts of Lamentations, yet without the format of a running commentary. Other works explore major themes central to the book of Lamentations.

Albertz, Rainer. Israel in Exile: The History and Literature of the Sixth Century B.C.E. SBL 3. Leiden: Brill, 2004.Google Scholar
Albrektson, Bertil, Studies in the Text and Theology of the Book of Lamentations with a Critical Edition of the Peshitta Text. STL 21. Lund: CWK Gleerup, 1963.Google Scholar
Barstad, Hans. The Myth of the Empty Land: A Study in the History and Archaeology of Judah during the “Exilic” Period. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1996.Google Scholar
Berrigan, Daniel. Lamentations: From New York to Kabul and Beyond. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.Google Scholar
Bier, Miriam J. “Perhaps there is Hope”: Reading Lamentations as a Polyphony of Pain, Penitence, and Protest. London: T&T Clark, 2016.Google Scholar
Blumenthal, David R. Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.Google Scholar
Boase, Elizabeth. The Fulfilment of Doom? The Dialogic Interaction between the Book of Lamentations and the Pre-Exilic/Early Exilic Prophetic Literature. London: T&T Clark, 2006.Google Scholar
Dobbs-Allsopp, F.W. Weep, O Daughter of Zion: A Study of the City-Lament Genre in the Hebrew Bible, BibOr 44. Rome: Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1993.Google Scholar
Ferris, Paul W. The Genre of Communal Lament in the Bible and the Ancient Near East. SBLDS 127. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993.Google Scholar
Gottwald, Norman K. Studies in the Book of Lamentations. SBT 14. London: SCM Press, 1962.Google Scholar
KaiserJr., Walter C. Grief and Pain in the Plan of God: Christian Assurance and the Message of Lamentations. Fearn: Christian Focus Publications, 2004.Google Scholar
Lee, Nancy. The Singers of Lamentations: Cities under Siege, from Ur to Jerusalem to Sarajevo. BibInt 60. Leiden: Brill, 2002.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Linafelt, Tod. Surviving Lamentations: Catastrophe, Lament, and Protest in the Afterlife of a Biblical Book. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Middlemas, Jill. The Troubles of Templeless Judah. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Middlemas, Jill. Lamentations: An Introduction and Study Guide. London: T&T Clark, 2021.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Morrow, William S. Protest Against God: The Eclipse of a Biblical Tradition. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Pham, Thi Xuan Huong. Mourning in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Rom-Shiloni, Dalit. Voices from the Ruins: Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2021.Google Scholar
Thomas, Heath. Poetry and Theology in the Book of Lamentations: The Aesthetics of an Open Text. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013.Google Scholar

Feminist Studies

The figure of Bat-Zion is one of the most evocative woman figures in the Hebrew Bible and recent decades have produced a wealth of insights on Lamentations from a feminist perspective:

Brenner, Athalya and van Dijk-Hemmes, Fokkelien. On Gendering Texts: Female and Male Voices in the Hebrew Bible. Leiden: Brill, 1993.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Day, Peggy. “The Personification of Cities as Female in the Hebrew Bible: The Thesis of Aloysius Fitzgerald, F.S.C.” Pages 283–302 in volume II of Reading from This Place. Edited by Segovia, Fernando F. and Tolbert, Mary Ann. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.Google Scholar
Dobbs-Allsopp, F.W. and Linafelt, Tod. “The Rape of Zion in Thr 1,10.” ZAW 113:1 (2001): 77–81.Google Scholar
Guest, Deryn. “Hiding Behind the Naked Women in Lamentations: Recriminative Response.” BibInt 7:4 (1999): 413–48.Google Scholar
Linafelt, Tod. “Zion’s cause: The Presentation of Pain in the Book of Lamentations.” Pages 267–79 in Strange Fire: Reading the Bible after the Holocaust. Edited by Linafelt, Tod. New York: New York University Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Maier, Christl M. Daughter Zion, Mother Zion: Gender, Space, and the Sacred in Ancient Israel. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008.Google Scholar
Mandolfo, Carleen. Daughter Zion Talks Back to the Prophets: a Dialogic Theology of the Book of Lamentations. SemeiaSt 58. Leiden: Brill, 2007.Google Scholar
O’Connor, Kathleen H. Lamentations & the Tears of the World. Maryknoll: Orbis, 2004.Google Scholar
Seidman, Naomi. “Burning the Book of Lamentations.” Pages 278–88 in Out of the Garden: Women Writers on the Bible. Edited by Christina, and Spiegel, Celina. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1995.Google Scholar

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