Lamentations

Name: Lamentations
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ISBN: 9780814681541

ISBN-10: 0814681549

ISBN-13: 9780814681541

Edition: 2017

Authors: Gina Hens-Piazza, Alison Mearns Benders, Kathleen Cooney, Carol J. Dempsey, Nancy Haught

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Though the five poems of Lamentations undoubtedly refer to the Babylonian siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BCE, the multiple voices that narrate unspeakable suffering and labor to make sense of the surrounding horror do so at women's expense. In the opening chapters, a prevailing metaphor of Jerusalem as a woman (Woman Zion) portrays a weeping widow, abandoned and alone, who soon becomes the target of blame for the downfall of the city and its inhabitants. Vague sexual improprieties craft the basis of her sinfulness, seemingly to justify her immense suffering as punishment. The damning effect of such a metaphor finds company in subsequent accounts of women, young girls, and…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2017
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Publication date: 7/15/2017
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 168
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Gina Hens-Piazza is at Jesuit School of Theology, Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.

Alison M. Benders is associate dean at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. She is the author of the award-winning Just Prayer: A Book of Hours for Peacemakers and Justice Seekers, published by Liturgical Press.

Nancy Haught is an award-winning journalist who covered religion and spirituality for fifteen years for The Oregonian, the largest daily newspaper in the Pacific Northwest.