Resources for the Book of Lamentations
(Check the Scripture
Index for links and study resources pertaining to specific pericopes)
- Introductions, Overviews & General Resources:
- Lamentations at Luther Seminary's Bible Tutor. Study basics about Bible books, people, dates, places, and content, and take web-based self-tests. CD-ROM of Advanced Studies also available at their site.
- Book of Lamentations, Wikipedia.
- Lamentations, The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1910.
- Jeremias the Prophet, from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
- Introduction to the Book of Lamentations, New American Bible.
- Introduction, Outline and Bibliography, by David Malick at the Biblical Studies Foundation.
- The World Wide Study Bible on the Book of Lamentations.
- Bible Basics (Lamentations) by NetMinistries. (Very basic - includes .wav files with pronunciation of Biblical words)
- Walking Through the Bible: Jeremiah.
- Biblenotes summary: Lamentations.
- Commentary, Exegesis, Studies,etc.:
- Lamentations, Geneva Study Bible, 1599.
- Lamentations, Matthew Henry Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1706.
- Lamentations, Wesley's Notes, c 1760.
- Lamentations, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871.
- Lamentations, Scofield Reference Notes, 1917.
- "Life and Literature of the Early Period," Gerald A. Larue in Old Testament Life and Literature, 1968.
- Lamentations, David J.A. Clines, Commentary 2000.
- The Book of Lamentations, verse by verse commentary, Robert Nguyen Cramer, BibleTexts.com.
- Lamentations, Expository Notes, Dr. Thomas L. Constable, Dallas Theological Seminary, 2005 edition.
- Articles and Background:
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"The Refusal of a Conclusion in the Book of Lamentations," Tod Linafelt, Journal of Biblical Literature, 2001. (This URL links entire journal in one .pdf file. Slow connections will require long download times.)
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- Recommended articles
from ATLAS, an online collection of religion and theology journals, are
linked below.
ATLAS Access options are available for academic institutions, alumni of
selected theological schools, and clergy/church offices.
- Assis, Elie, "The Alphabetic Acrostic
in the Book of Lamentations," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly,
2007.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Assis, Elie, "The Unity of the Book of Lamentations,"
Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2009.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Houk, Cornelius,
"Multiple Poets in Lamentations," Journal for the Study of the Old
Testament, 2005.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Linafelt, Tod,
"The Refusal of a Conclusion in the Book of Lamentations," Journal of
Biblical Literature, 2001.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Middlemas, Jill,
"The Violent Storm in Lamentations," Journal for the Study of the Old
Testament, 2004.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Morse, Benjamin,
"The Lamentations Project: Biblical Mourning through Modern Montage,"
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 2003.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Pakala, James C.,
"A Librarian's Comments on Commentaries: 20 (Lamentations and 2 Peter),"
Presbyterion, 2005.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Pyper, Hugh S.,
"Reading Lamentations," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament,
2001.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Assis, Elie, "The Alphabetic Acrostic
in the Book of Lamentations," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly,
2007.
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Reviews: - Review: Erhard S. Gerstenberger, Psalms, Part 2, and Lamentations. (Eerdmans, 2001) Review by Thomas Hieke in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature.
- Review: Adele Berlin, Lamentations: A Commentary, Westminster John Knox, 2002. Review by James E. West in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2003.
- Review: F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp, Lamentations. Westminster John Knox, 2002. Review by Carleen Mandolfo in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2003.
- Review: Dianne Bergant, Lamentations. Abingdon, 2003. Review by Irene Nowell in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2004.
- Review: Dianne Bergant, Lamentations. Abingdon, 2003. Review by J Michael Thigpen in The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2004.
- Review: Elizabeth Boase, The Fulfilment of Doom?: The Dialogic Interaction between the Book of Lamentations and the Pre-Exilic/Early Exilic Prophetic Literature. T&T Clark, 2006. Review by Bradley C. Gregory, Review of Biblical Literature, 2007.
- Review: Carleen R. Mandolfo, Daughter Zion Talks Back to the Prophets: A Dialogic Theology of the Book of Lamentations. Brill, 2007. Review by Elizabeth Boase, Review of Biblical Literature, 2008.
- The Text This Week's links and resources to information about the Hebrew Prophets.