Mourning in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Pham, Huong Thi Xuan</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">9:2</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">UK</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Sheffield Academic Press</publisher> <dateIssued>1999</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>219tr.</extent> <extent>Hardcover, Illustration</extent> <extent>24 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Commentators are often disturbed by the presence of various speakers in the three poems of Lamentations 1 and 2, and Isaiah 51.9-52.2, the change of speakers being thought to disrupt the flow of ideas. This study shows that a close reading of all three poems in the light of their mourning ceremony setting displays a clear and consistent flow of thought. Purported cases of 'disruption' now fit into their present context as moments in which different mourners voice their pains and their questions aloud, and bring their incomprehensible sufferings to Yahweh their God and the creator of all.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Xuan Huong Thi Pham</note> <subject> <topic>Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Bible -- Isaiah</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Bible -- Lamentations</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">224.3</classification> <classification authority="ddc">P532-H96</classification> <identifier type="isbn">1841270296</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14950/184127029601-sx360-sclzzzzzzz.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14950/184127029601-sx360-sclzzzzzzz.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071425.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>