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This dissertation will explore the extent to which key poetic features in the book of Lamentations work together to bring cohesion or dissonance to the message in this book. More specifically, the dissertation observes how these features function in relation to one another in th…

That the biblical text was intended to be performed publicly and not read privately is an axiom in biblical scholarship, and yet, until recently, with the emergence of performance criticism, scholars have essentially ignored this axiom. As an interdisciplinary methodology borrow…

This study examines the use of the terms virgin (btwlt), daughter (bt), and virgin daughter (btwlt bt) when used to identify the female metaphor used to personify Jerusalem or Israel in the prophetic material and the book of Lamentations of the Old Testament. Chapter 1 identifie…