Book contents
- Why the Bible Began
- Why the Bible Began
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Part I The Rise and Fall
- Part II Admitting Defeat
- 9 Daughter Zion
- 10 The Creator
- 11 Haggai the Prophet
- 12 Nehemiah the Builder
- 13 Ezra the Educator
- 14 Hoshayahu the Soldier
- Part III A New Narrative
- Part IV A People of Protest
- Subject Index
- Scholars Cited
- Biblical References
- References
9 - Daughter Zion
Finding One’s Voice
from Part II - Admitting Defeat
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2023
Book contents
- Why the Bible Began
- Why the Bible Began
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Part I The Rise and Fall
- Part II Admitting Defeat
- 9 Daughter Zion
- 10 The Creator
- 11 Haggai the Prophet
- 12 Nehemiah the Builder
- 13 Ezra the Educator
- 14 Hoshayahu the Soldier
- Part III A New Narrative
- Part IV A People of Protest
- Subject Index
- Scholars Cited
- Biblical References
- References
Summary
These questions lie at the heart of a little biblical book that many know as Lamentations. In Hebrew, it is called by its incipit: eichah, literally “how.” Translators do injustice to the word by rendering it with the stoic “alas.” Eichah is desperation, interrogation, exasperation, shock in the face of unfathomable brutality, a frantic search for a way out, a plea to be seen and heard.
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- Information
- Why the Bible BeganAn Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins, pp. 137 - 152Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
References
Further Reading
Dué, Casey, The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy, University of Texas Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Linafelt, Todd, Surviving Lamentations: Catastrophe, Lament, and Protest in the Afterlife of a Biblical Book, University of Chicago Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Nguyen, Kim Lan, Chorus in the Dark: The Voices of the Book of Lamentations, Sheffield Phoenix, 2013.Google Scholar
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang, The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery, Picador, 2004.Google Scholar
Wright, Jacob L., “The Commemoration of Defeat and the Formation of a Nation in the Hebrew Bible,” Prooftexts 29 (2009): 433–473 (open access).CrossRefGoogle Scholar