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Lamentations 1:1-6
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Comments
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(technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican
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Lamentations 1:1-6; 3:19-26, Commentary, Background, Insights from Literary Structure,
Theological Message, Ways to Present the Text. Anna Grant-Henderson, Uniting
Church in Australia.
 | "A lament can be an expression of anger, despair,
blame, grief, hopelessness and many other feelings. This city is feeling
all the pain and loss suffered by those who are devastated by war. The
fact that they may have brought it on themselves by their rebellion
against Babylon does not lessen the severe feelings evoked by all their
losses." |
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Lamentations 1:1-6 (3:19-26),
The Old Testament Readings: Weekly Comments on the Revised Common
Lectionary, Howard Wallace Audrey Schindler, Morag Logan, Paul Tonson, Lorraine Parkinson, Theological Hall of the Uniting Church,
Melbourne, Australia.
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"The title,
Lamentations, reflects the ancient Hebrew name of this book meaning
‘funeral dirges’. Each of the five chapters is a hymn about the fall
of Jerusalem at the hand of the Babylonians in 587 BCE and the exile
that followed." |
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"How Lonely Sits the City," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible
Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources. |
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| Articles & Background:
| Tears
from Jewish Heritage OnLine Magazine. See esp
"During the Exiles' Long Night, God
Weeps."
| "When
the Holy One grieves, He strikes both hands together, clasps them over His
heart, then folds His arms as He weeps over the righteous, sometimes
secretly, sometimes openly." |
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| Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
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ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
| Bergant, Dianne, C.S.A.,
"The Challenge of Hermeneutics: Lamentations 1:1-11: A Test Case,"
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2002.
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| Miller, Charles William, "Reading Voices:
Personification, Dialogism and the Reader of Lamentations 1,"
Biblical Interpretation, 2001.
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| Olyan, Saul M., "Honor, Shame, and Covenant Relations
in Ancient Israel and Its Environment," Journal of Biblical
Literature, 1996.
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