The timeless, unifying rhetoric of Lamentations
Certain poetic features of Lamentations contribute to an ongoing preservative / cohesive function in faith communities. In form and content the reader / audience is confronted with completeness - a nation's complete destruction, the complete range of human emotion - and with incompleteness - a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2012
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Old Testament essays
Year: 2012, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 534-558 |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | Certain poetic features of Lamentations contribute to an ongoing preservative / cohesive function in faith communities. In form and content the reader / audience is confronted with completeness - a nation's complete destruction, the complete range of human emotion - and with incompleteness - a fragmented people, broken institutions, unanswered theological questions. |
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| ISSN: | 2312-3621 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/EJC132563 |