The Book of Lamentations and the Social World of Judah in the Neo-Babylonian Era / / Lauress L. Wilkins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Wilkins, Lauress L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical Intersections ; Volume
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; INTRODUCTION --; 1. LAMENTATIONS ONE --; 2. LAMENTATIONS TWO --; 3. LAMENTATIONS THREE --; 4. LAMENTATIONS FOUR --; 5. LAMENTATIONS FIVE --; CONCLUSION --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX OF BIBLICAL CITATIONS --; INDEX OF EXTRA-BIBLICAL ANCIENT TEXTS
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463216849; 9783111024141; 9783110663037; 9783110716849
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463216849
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Lauress L. Wilkins.

Using a form of social-historical criticism this book provides a counter-reading of Lamentations that elucidates the impact and aftermath of siege warfare on Judah's peasants. The rhetoric of Lamentations, ancient Near Eastern writings, and archaeological evidence are considered, along with social models from other agrarian societies. Together these shed light on the changing social dynamics, religious customs, and political and economic structures of rural and urban Judah in the sixth century BCE. This study brings to life voices long silent, and suggests that Judah's peasants played a significant role in the survival of peasant and city-dweller alike, when Jerusalem fell.