Resources for the Book of Lamentations
(Check the Scripture Index for links and study resources pertaining to specific pericopes)

• Introductions, Overviews & General Resources:
  • Lamentations at Luther Seminary's Bible Tutor. Study basics about Bible books, people, dates, places, and content, and take web-based self-tests. CD-ROM of Advanced Studies also available at their site.
  • Book of Lamentations, Wikipedia.
  • Lamentations, The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1910.
  • Jeremias the Prophet, from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
  • Introduction to the Book of Lamentations, New American Bible.
  • Introduction, Outline and Bibliography, by David Malick at the Biblical Studies Foundation.
  • The World Wide Study Bible on the Book of Lamentations.
  • Bible Basics (Lamentations) by NetMinistries. (Very basic - includes .wav files with pronunciation of Biblical words)
  • Walking Through the Bible: Jeremiah.
  • Biblenotes summary: Lamentations.
• Commentary, Exegesis, Studies,etc.:
  • Lamentations, Geneva Study Bible, 1599.
  • Lamentations, Matthew Henry Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1706.
  • Lamentations, Wesley's Notes, c 1760.
  • Lamentations, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871.
  • Lamentations, Scofield Reference Notes, 1917.
  • "Life and Literature of the Early Period," Gerald A. Larue in Old Testament Life and Literature, 1968.
  • Lamentations, David J.A. Clines, Commentary 2000.
  • The Book of Lamentations, verse by verse commentary, Robert Nguyen Cramer, BibleTexts.com.
  • Lamentations, Expository Notes, Dr. Thomas L. Constable, Dallas Theological Seminary, 2005 edition.
• Articles and Background:
  • "The Refusal of a Conclusion in the Book of Lamentations," Tod Linafelt, Journal of Biblical Literature, 2001. (This URL links entire journal in one .pdf file. Slow connections will require long download times.)
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  • Assis, Elie, "The Alphabetic Acrostic in the Book of Lamentations," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2007.
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  • Assis, Elie, "The Unity of the Book of Lamentations," Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2009.
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  • Houk, Cornelius, "Multiple Poets in Lamentations," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 2005.
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  • Linafelt, Tod, "The Refusal of a Conclusion in the Book of Lamentations," Journal of Biblical Literature, 2001.
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  • Middlemas, Jill, "The Violent Storm in Lamentations," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 2004.
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  • Morse, Benjamin, "The Lamentations Project: Biblical Mourning through Modern Montage," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 2003.
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  • Pakala, James C., "A Librarian's Comments on Commentaries: 20 (Lamentations and 2 Peter)," Presbyterion, 2005.
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  • Pyper, Hugh S., "Reading Lamentations," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 2001.
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• Reviews:
  • Review: Erhard S. Gerstenberger, Psalms, Part 2, and Lamentations. (Eerdmans, 2001) Review by Thomas Hieke in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature.
  • Review: Adele Berlin, Lamentations: A Commentary, Westminster John Knox, 2002. Review by James E. West in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2003.
  • Review: F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp, Lamentations. Westminster John Knox, 2002. Review by Carleen Mandolfo in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2003.
  • Review: Dianne Bergant, Lamentations. Abingdon, 2003. Review by Irene Nowell in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2004.
  • Review: Dianne Bergant, Lamentations. Abingdon, 2003. Review by J Michael Thigpen in The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2004.
  • Review: Elizabeth Boase, The Fulfilment of Doom?: The Dialogic Interaction between the Book of Lamentations and the Pre-Exilic/Early Exilic Prophetic Literature. T&T Clark, 2006. Review by Bradley C. Gregory, Review of Biblical Literature, 2007.
  • Review: Carleen R. Mandolfo, Daughter Zion Talks Back to the Prophets: A Dialogic Theology of the Book of Lamentations. Brill, 2007. Review by Elizabeth Boase, Review of Biblical Literature, 2008.
• The Text This Week's links and resources to information about the Hebrew Prophets.