Lectures & Notes For Class Use Only, pdf files

1
Introduction
2
History of Exegesis
3
Laments
4
Declarative Praise
5
Descriptive Praise
6
Exodus Motif
7
Royal/Enthronment
8a
Wisdom & the Psalter
8
Enemies and Curses
9
Praying the Laments as Christians
10

An article which may help considerably towards an appreciation of the strong and subversive language of lament is Walter Brueggemann's,
"The Costly Loss of Lament," first published in JSOT
36 (1986) 57-71, and reprinted in
The Psalms: The Life of Faith
, edited by Patrick D. Miller, Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995, pp. 98-111.

Berlin, Adele. “Parallelism.” In D. N. Freedman (Ed.), The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary vol. 5, pp. 154–162, New York: Doubleday, 1992.

Hens-Piazza, Gina . “Learning to Curse.” Review for Religious 53 (1994): 860-865.

LOHFINK, N. “The Psalter and Meditation: On the Genre of the Book of Psalms.”
In In the Shadow of Your Wings: New Readings of Great Texts from the Bible
[Im Schatten deiner Flügel: Grosse Bibeltexte neu erschlossen, Freiburg im Breisgan: Herder, 1999].
Translated by Linda M. Maloney. 75-90. Collegeville: Order of Saint Benedict, 2003.