@article{ART001448438},
author={이영미},
title={Lament as Prophetic Spirituality of the Old Testament: Lament and Salvation in the Book of Lamentations},
journal={Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies},
issn={1229-0521},
year={2009},
volume={15},
number={4},
pages={10-29},
doi={10.24333/jkots.2009.15.4.10}
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AU - 이영미
TI - Lament as Prophetic Spirituality of the Old Testament: Lament and Salvation in the Book of Lamentations
JO - Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies
PY - 2009
VL - 15
IS - 4
PB - Korean Society of Old Testament Studies
SP - 10
EP - 29
SN - 1229-0521
AB - ______________________________________________________________________________
Lament as Prophetic Spirituality of the Old Testament:
Lament and Salvation in the Book of Lamentations
______________________________________________________________________________
Young-Mee Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Theology
Hanshin University
Lamentations ends with lament unlike other typical lament psalms that include transformation from lament to trust or praise. This study pays attention to the ending of lamentations and seeks its theological meaning in relation to salvation. It examines the text from three approaches.
First, literary analysis reveals that each chapter of Lamentations ends with lament or outcry to God, acknowledging the miserable situation. Especially Lamentation as a whole psalm is finished with an open ending in 5: 21-22, in which the psalmist accuses God for abandoning Israel.
Second, from a form critical perspective, Lamentations do not follow typical form of Lament Psalms.
Third, from a psychological perspective, Lamentations do not reflect the stages of the death or dyingdenial and isolation, anger, negotiation, desperation, acceptance, suggested by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. In Lamentation, the last stage, which is the stage of acceptance, is missing. Instead, it ends with accusation of God. These three approaches highlight the importance of 'lament' in the book of Lamentation. The last two verses of chapter 5 stands at zenith of lamenting in the whole book. Yet, the ending does not signify the distrust of God or rejection of God. The verses are an open ending that requires to be interpreted in connection with other biblical texts of Isaiah 40-66 where they describe the divine salvation after abandoning Israel briefly.
The intertextual reading of lamentation and prophetic text presents some theological connotation of lament:
First, lament is an action of resistance against the injust situation of people.
Second, lament is an accusation of injustice and represents the voice of the oppressed who is in silence.
Finally, lament evokes the action of the divine salvation who listens to the cry/lament of the oppressed and acts upon the cry.
KW - Lament
Lament Psalms
Lamentation 5:19-22
Lamentations
Salvation
DO - 10.24333/jkots.2009.15.4.10
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이영미. (2009). Lament as Prophetic Spirituality of the Old Testament: Lament and Salvation in the Book of Lamentations. Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies, 15(4), 10-29.
이영미. 2009, "Lament as Prophetic Spirituality of the Old Testament: Lament and Salvation in the Book of Lamentations", Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies, vol.15, no.4 pp.10-29. Available from: doi:10.24333/jkots.2009.15.4.10
이영미 "Lament as Prophetic Spirituality of the Old Testament: Lament and Salvation in the Book of Lamentations" Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies 15.4 pp.10-29 (2009) : 10.
이영미. Lament as Prophetic Spirituality of the Old Testament: Lament and Salvation in the Book of Lamentations. 2009; 15(4), 10-29. Available from: doi:10.24333/jkots.2009.15.4.10
이영미. "Lament as Prophetic Spirituality of the Old Testament: Lament and Salvation in the Book of Lamentations" Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies 15, no.4 (2009) : 10-29.doi: 10.24333/jkots.2009.15.4.10
이영미. Lament as Prophetic Spirituality of the Old Testament: Lament and Salvation in the Book of Lamentations. Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies, 15(4), 10-29. doi: 10.24333/jkots.2009.15.4.10
이영미. Lament as Prophetic Spirituality of the Old Testament: Lament and Salvation in the Book of Lamentations. Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies. 2009; 15(4) 10-29. doi: 10.24333/jkots.2009.15.4.10
이영미. Lament as Prophetic Spirituality of the Old Testament: Lament and Salvation in the Book of Lamentations. 2009; 15(4), 10-29. Available from: doi:10.24333/jkots.2009.15.4.10
이영미. "Lament as Prophetic Spirituality of the Old Testament: Lament and Salvation in the Book of Lamentations" Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies 15, no.4 (2009) : 10-29.doi: 10.24333/jkots.2009.15.4.10
