For example, House, Lamentations, p. 429.

So Mintz, Ḥurban, p. 33; S.P. Re’emi, “The Theology of Hope: A Commentary on the Book of Lamentations,” in Amos and Lamentations: God’s People in Crisis (ITC; Edinburgh: Handsel, 1984), pp. 73-134 (116-17); J. Bracke, Jeremiah 30-52 and Lamentations (WBC; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000), p. 188.

See Tigay, Cooper, and Bayer, “Lamentations, Book of,” p. 447.

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See Linafelt, Surviving Lamentations, p. 3.

See Linafelt, Surviving Lamentations, p. 3; O’Connor, “Lamentations,” p. 1057; K.M. O’Connor, Lamentations and the Tears of the World (Maryknoll: Orbis, 2002), p. 45.

See O’Connor, “Lamentations,” p. 1046; Provan, Lamentations, p. 23.

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Linafelt, “Zion’s Cause,” p. 268.

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Linafelt, “Zion’s Cause,” p. 268.

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See Mandolfo, Daughter Zion, p. 72; O’Connor, “Lamentations,” p. 1046.

See O’Connor, Tears of the World, p. 57; Linafelt, Surviving Lamentations, pp. 17-18.

Green, How Are the Mighty Fallen?, p. 25; see also G. Morson and C. Emerson, “Extracts from a Heteroglossary,” in M. Macovski (ed.), Dialogue and Critical Discourse: Language, Culture, Critical Theory (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 266.

See Levine, “Dialogic Discourse of Psalms,” p. 269.

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See Mandolfo, “Sanctioned Subversion,” p. 33.

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Levine, “Dialogic Discourse of Psalms,” p. 269.

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See M. Holquist, “Glossary,” in M.M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M.M. Bakhtin (trans. C. Emerson and M. Holquist; Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981), pp. 423-34 (427); Levine, “Dialogic Discourse of Psalms,” p. 279.

See M. Holquist, “Glossary,” in M.M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M.M. Bakhtin (trans. C. Emerson and M. Holquist; Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981), pp. 423-34 (427); Levine, “Dialogic Discourse of Psalms,” p. 279.)| false
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See Holquist, “Glossary,” p. 423.

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Mandolfo, “Sanctioned Subversion,” 30.

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Bakhtin, “Discourse in the Novel,” p. 342.

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Holquist, “Glossary,” p. 424.

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Morson and Emerson, “Heteroglossary,” p. 268, emphasis original.

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Holquist, “Glossary,” p. 424.

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Bakhtin, “Discourse in the Novel,” p. 342.

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Bakhtin, “Discourse in the Novel,” p. 342, emphasis original.

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Levine, “Dialogic Discourse of Psalms,” p. 269.

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See O’Connor, “Lamentations,” p. 1049.

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House, Lamentations, p. 414. דסח is predicated of Yhwh in Gen. 24:12, 14, 27; 32:11; 39:21; Exod. 15:13; 20:6; 34:6-7; Num. 14:18-19; Deut. 5:10; 7:9, 12; 1 Sam. 20:14; 2 Sam. 2:6; 7:15; 15:20; 22:26, 51; 1 Kgs 3:6; 8:23; Isa. 54:8, 10; 55:3; 63:7; Jer. 3:12; 9:23; 16:5; 31:3; 32:18; 33:11; Hos. 2:21; Joel 2:13; Jon. 4:2; Mic. 7:18, 20. Reading synchronically, the covenant context of דסח resounds. R.B. Salters, however, suggests that linking דסח to covenant was a relatively late development, such that “it is perhaps reading too much into this passage to assume that the poet was thinking of the covenant” (Salters, Lamentations [ICC; New York: T & T Clark, 2010], p. 225; cf. J. Renkema, Lamentations [trans. Brian Doyle; HCOT; Leuven: Peeters, 1998], p. 385).

Salters, Lamentations, p. 224; cf. B. Albrektson, Studies in the Text and Theology of the Book of Lamentations with a Critical Edition of the Peshitta Text (Studia Theologica Lundensia Series, 21; Lund: CWK Gleerup, 1963), p. 145; and BHQ, p. 65.

See Mintz, Ḥurban, p. 35; Renkema, Lamentations, p. 383; Dobbs-Allsopp, Lamentations, p. 116; House, Lamentations, p. 413.

See O’Connor, Tears of the World, p. 49; O’Connor, “Lamentations,” p. 1051.

Salters, Lamentations, p. 228.

See Salters, Lamentations, p. 226.

House, Lamentations, p. 415.

Hillers, Lamentations, p. 129; see also Parry, Lamentations, p. 101.

Mintz, Ḥurban, p. 35.

Hillers, Lamentations, p. 6.

O’Connor, “Lamentations,” p. 1051.

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O’Connor, Tears of the World, p. 44.

O’Connor, Tears of the World, p. 45.

See Salters, Lamentations, p. 230; E.S. Gerstenberger, Psalms, Part 2, and Lamentations (FOTL, XV; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001), p. 494; Renkema, Lamentations, p. 392.

Tigay, Cooper, and Bayer, “Lamentations, Book of,” p. 447.

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Tigay, Cooper, and Bayer, “Lamentations, Book Of,” p. 447. See also T. Longman III, Jeremiah, Lamentations (NIBC, 14; Peabody: Hendrickson, 2008), p. 339.

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See Ryken, Jeremiah and Lamentations, p. 757; Mintz, Ḥurban, p. 35.

See Hillers, Lamentations, p. 130.

Parry, Lamentations, p. 114. See Renkema, Lamentations, p. 411; Krašovec, “The Source of Hope,” p. 232. And yet, Lamentations itself is riddled with complaint.

Hillers, Lamentations, p. 130.

In a Bakhtinian framework, “a given proverb is easily seen as monologic: it is ‘no-man’s-speech’” (Stordalen, “Dialogue and Dialogism in Job,” p. 36). The very “procedure of collecting proverbs into continuous writing forces ‘monologic’ utterances to meet and wrestle,” such that “there is a discernible intent to engage outside discourse by citing it” (Stordalen, “Dialogue and Dialogism in Job,” p. 36, emphasis original). By citing proverbial wisdom here, then, the רבג engages this outside discourse dialogically, in an attempt to integrate sapiential mores with his experience of suffering.

In a Bakhtinian framework, “a given proverb is easily seen as monologic: it is ‘no-man’s-speech’” (Stordalen, “Dialogue and Dialogism in Job,” p. 36). The very “procedure of collecting proverbs into continuous writing forces ‘monologic’ utterances to meet and wrestle,” such that “there is a discernible intent to engage outside discourse by citing it” (Stordalen, “Dialogue and Dialogism in Job,” p. 36, emphasis original). By citing proverbial wisdom here, then, the רבג engages this outside discourse dialogically, in an attempt to integrate sapiential mores with his experience of suffering.)| false
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Renkema, Lamentations, p. 403. Similarly, O’Connor suggests his “suffering is too deep to be overturned for long by simple theological affirmation” (Tears of the World, p. 50).

Salters, Lamentations, p. 242.

Dobbs-Allsopp, Lamentations, p. 121.

Parry, Lamentations, p. 103.

See O’Connor, “Lamentations,” p. 1052; Lee, The Singers of Lamentations, p. 180; Dobbs-Allsopp, Lamentations, p. 121.

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J. Stiebert, “Human Suffering and Divine Abuse of Power in Lamentations,” Pacifica 16/2 (2003), pp. 195-215 (199); see also Dobbs-Allsopp, “Tragedy, Tradition, and Theology,” pp. 49-50.

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Stiebert, “Human Suffering and Divine Abuse of Power,” p. 203.

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See O’Connor, “Lamentations,” p. 1051; Tigay, Cooper, and Bayer, “Lamentations,” p. 447; Salters, Lamentations, p. 242.

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O’Connor, “Lamentations,” p. 1052.

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O’Connor, “Lamentations,” p. 1052.

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See Mandolfo, Daughter Zion, pp. 64-65.

House, Lamentations, p. 420; Provan, Lamentations, p. 100; Childs, Old Testament as Scripture, p. 595.

Gordis, Lamentations, p. 185. See also Krašovec, “The Source of Hope,” p. 233; Parry, La­men­ta­­tions, p. 116; Longman, Jeremiah and Lamentations, p. 339; Thomas, “Poetry and Theology,” p. 249; House, Lamentations, p. 421. Berlin agrees that vv. 40-41 suggest the straightforward equation: “If God is indeed so good and so merciful, and if the people have sinned, the natural next step is that the people must repent and then they will surely be forgiven” (A. Berlin, Lamentations [OTL; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002], pp. 95-96). She rightly foreshadows, however, the “sudden jolt” that upsets the assumption in v. 42 (Berlin, Lamentations, p. 96).

So House, Lamentations, p. 421; Parry, Lamentations, p. 116.

Tigay, Cooper, and Bayer, “Lamentations, Book Of,” p. 447.

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O’Connor, “Lamentations,” p. 1057. See also Dobbs-Allsopp, “Tragedy, Tradition, and Theology,” pp. 48-49.

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O’Connor, “Lamentations,” p. 1053; see also Stiebert, “Human Suffering and Divine Abuse of Power,” p. 203.

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Berlin, Lamentations, p. 96.

Berlin, Lamentations, p. 96.

Berlin, Lamentations, p. 96.

Berlin, Lamentations, p. 96.

O’Connor, “Lamentations,” p. 1053.

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O’Connor, “Lamentations,” p. 1054.

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See Berlin, Lamentations, p. 95.

O’Connor, “Lamentations,” p. 1055.

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See Mintz, Ḥurban, p. 38.

See Mintz, Ḥurban, pp. 38-39.

So House, Lamentations, p. 426; Salters, Lamentations, p. 266.

So Gottlieb, Lamentations, p. 53; I.W. Provan, “Past, Present and Future in Lamentations 3:52-66: The Case for a Precative Perfect Re-examined,” VT 41/2 (1991), pp. 164-75; Gordis, Lamentations, p. 187; E. Boase, The Fulfilment of Doom? The Dialogic Interaction Between the Book of Lamentations and the Pre-Exilic/Early Exilic Prophetic Literature (LHB/OTS, 437; New York: T & T Clark, 2006), p. 194; Hillers, Lamentations, pp. 118-19; Berlin, Lamen­tations, p. 97. See especially Provan’s meticulous examination (Provan, “Past, Present, and Future,” pp. 164-75) and note Parry’s helpful excursus (Parry, Lamentations, pp. 120-24).

Dobbs-Allsopp, Lamentations, p. 127.

See Landy, “Lamentations,” p. 332.

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See O’Connor, “Lamentations,” p. 1051.

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See Morson and Emerson, “Heteroglossary,” p. 269.

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