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Chapter 1 Introduction 1. C.J. Gadd, “The Second Lamentation for Ur,” in Hebrew and Semitic Studies Presented to Godfrey Rolles Driver, Ed Notes Chapter 1 Introduction 1. C.J. Gadd, “The Second Lamentation for Ur,” in Hebrew and Semitic Studies Presented to Godfrey Rolles Driver, ed. D.W. Thomas and W.D. McHardy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), 59–71. Samuel Noah Kramer, Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur AS, vol. 12 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940); “Sumerian Literature and the Bible,” Analecta Biblica 12 (1959): 185–204; The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963); “Lamentation over the Destruction over Ur,” ANET (1969): 455–463; “Lamentation over the Destruction over Sumer and Ur,” ANET (1969): 611–619; “Lamentation over the Destruction of Nippur,” EI 9 (1969): 89–93; “Lamentation over the Destruction of Nippur,” ASJ 13 (1991): 1–26. Raphael Kutscher, Oh Angry Sea (a-ab-ba hu-luh-ha): The History of a Sumerian Congregation Lament, YNER 6 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975). Piotr Michalowski, The Lamentation over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1989). M.W. Green, “The Eridu Lament,” JCS 30 (1978): 127–167; “The Uruk Lament,” JAOS 104 (1984): 253–279. 2. F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp, Weep, O Daughter of Zion: A Study of the City-Lament Genre in the Hebrew Bible (Roma: Editrice Pontificio Instituto Biblico, 1993). W.C., Jr., Gwaltney, “The Biblical Book of Lamentations in the Context of Near Eastern Lament Literature,” in Scripture in Context II: More Essays on the Comparative Method, ed. W.W. Hallo, J.C. Moyer, and L.G. Perdue (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1983), 191–211. Delbert Hillers, Lamentations (Garden City: Doubleday, 1992). Leland E. Wilshire, “The Servant City: A New Interpretation of the ‘Servant of the Lord’ in the Servant Songs of Deutero-Isaiah,” JBL 94 (1975): 356–367; “ ‘Jerusalem as the Servant City’ in Isaiah 40–66: Reflections in the Light of Further Study of the Cuneiform Tradition,” in The Bible in the Light of Cuneiform Literature, ed. W.W. Hallo, B.W. Jones, and G.L. Mattingly. (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 1990), 231–255. Thomas F. 158 NOTES McDaniel, “The Alleged Sumerian Influence upon Lamentations,” VT 18 (1968): 198–209; “Philological Studies in Lamentations I,” Biblica 49 (1968): 27–53 and 199–220. 3. Brevard S. Childs, Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1979), 327. 4. The former things–that which was prophesied in First Isaiah some 200 years earlier (11:6, 9; 13:17)–are now coming to pass. Cf. Childs, Introduction, 328–330; for a more complete handling of this con- cept. Cf. also Christopher R. Seitz, Zion’s Final Destiny (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991), 210. 5. For example, Tremper Longman has recently demonstrated the employment of such a methodology by comparing the generic fea- tures commonly found in the biblical genres with those of Akkadian compositions. Cf. Fictional Akkadian Autobiography: A Generic and Comparative Study (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1991), 163–190. 6. See Rolf Rendtorff, Canon Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993), 172. 7. Marvin Sweeney, “On Multiple Settings in the Book of Isaiah,” SBL Seminar Papers Annual Meeting, ed. E.H. Lovering, Jr. (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993), 269. 8. Cf. Brevard S. Childs, Old Testament in a Canonical Context (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1985). 9. Childs, Introduction; Rolf Rendtorff, The Old Testament: An Introduction, trans. John Bowden (London: SCM Press, 1985); Rolf Rendtorff, Canon and Theology, trans. Margaret Kohl; Overtures to Biblical Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993). Sheppard, Wisdom as a Hermeneutical Construct, 1980; Gerald T. Sheppard, “The Anti_Assyrian Redaction and the Canonical Context of Isaiah 1–39,” JBL 104, no. 2 (1985): 193–216; Gerald T. Sheppard, “Isaiah 1–39,” in Harper’s Bible Commentary, ed. James L. Mays (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988), 542–570; Gerald T. Sheppard, “The Role of the Canonical Context in the Interpretation of the Solomonic Books,” in William Perkins’ A Commentary on Galatians (1617), with Introductory Essays, ed. G.T. Sheppard (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1989), 67–107; Gerald T. Sheppard, The Future of the Bible: Beyond Liberalism and Literalism (Toronto: United Church of Canada, 1990); Gerald T. Sheppard, “The Book of Isaiah,” in Society of Biblical Literature 1992 Seminar Papers, ed. Eugene H. Lovering, Jr. (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992), 549–581; Gerald T. Sheppard, “The Book of Isaiah as a Human Witness to Revelation within the Religions of Judaism and Christianity,” in Society of Biblical Literature 1993 Seminar Papers, ed. Eugene H. Lovering, Jr. (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993), 274–280; Gerald T. Sheppard, “Two Turbulent Decades of Isaiah Research,” TSTJ 9, no. 1 (1993): 107–116; Gerald T. Sheppard, “The Book of Isaiah as a Human Witness to Revelation within the Religions of Judaism and Christianity,” in Society of NOTES 159 Biblical Literature 1995 Seminar Papers, ed. Eugene H. Lovering, Jr. (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995), 274–280; Gerald T. Sheppard, “The Scope of Isaiah as a Book of Jewish and Christian Scriptures,” in New Visions of Isaiah, ed. R Melugin and M. Sweeney, JSOT Supp. 214 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996), 257–281; Gerald T. Sheppard, “Biblical Wisdom Literature at the End of the Modern Age,” in Congress Volume, Oslo 1998, ed. A Lemaire and M. Sæbø (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000), 369–398; Gerald T. Sheppard, “Isaiah 40–66” (2000). In the Psalms, see James Luther Mays, “The Place of the Torah Psalms in the Psalter,” JBL 106 (1987): 3–12; James Luther Mays, “The Question of Context in Psalm Interpretation,” in Shape and Shaping of the Psalter (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993), 3–12; Sheppard, The Future of the Bible, 49–95; Matthias Millard, Die Komposition Des Psalters: Ein Formgeschichtlicher Ansatz (Tübingen: J.C.B. Moh, 1994). In the New Testament, see David Trobisch, Die Entstehung der Paulusbriefsammlung, Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus, vol. 10 (Freiburg, Schweiz: Universitätsverlag; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1989); David Trobisch, Die Endredaktion Des Neuen, Testaments: Eine Untersuchung Zur Entstehung der Christlichen Bibel (Freiburg, Schweiz: Universitätsverlag; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996). 10. Gerald T. Sheppard, “Canon Criticism,” in ABD, vol. 1, ed. David Noel Freedman (New York: Macmillan, 1992), 861–866. 11. This is Sheppard’s way of clarifying that we do not claim to be doing “canonical criticism” as a methodology that stands on its own but employ many methods to describe scripture. Sheppard, “Biblical Wisdom Literature at the End of the Modern Age,” 369. 12. Wilfred Cantwell Smith, What Is Scripture? A Comparative Approach (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993). Chapter 2 A Study of City Laments: Their Form and Function 1. Dobbs-Allsopp; Gadd, 59–71; Gwaltney, 191–211. Hillers, Lamentations. Kramer, Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur; “Sumerian Literature and the Bible,” Analecta Biblica 12 (1959): 185–204; The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character (Chicago: University of Chicago), 1963; “Lamentation over the Destruction over Ur” ANET (1969): 455–463; “Lamentation over the Destruction over Sumer and Ur” ANET (1969): 611–619; “Lamentation over the Destruction of Nippur,” EI 9 (1969): 89–93; “Lamentation over the Destruction of Nippur,” ASJ 13 (1991): 1–26. Kutscher; Wilshire, “The Servant City,” 356–367; “Jerusalem as the Servant City” 231–255. 2. S. Langdon, Historical and Religious Texts from the Temple Library of Nippur, BE 31 (Munich: Rudolf Merkel, 1914). 160 NOTES 3. A. Falkenstein, “Die Ibbi-sin-Klage,” WO 1 (1950): 377–384. 4. These revised editions specify that the first editions of these texts came out in 1918 and 1919 in the following order. Henri De Genouillac, Textes religieux sumeriens du Louvre, vols. 1–2 (Paris: Musee national du Louvre, 1930). Edward Chiera, Sumerian Texts of varied contents, vol. 16 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Oriental Institute, 1930). 5. Cf. Samuel Noah Kramer, The Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963). 6. Kramer, Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur. 7. Gadd, 61 n.2. 8. Samuel Noah Kramer, “Lamentation over the Destruction of Nippur,” EI 9 (1969): 89–93. 9. Green, “The Eridu Lament,” 127–167; “The Uruk Lament,” 253– 279. 10. Michalowski . 11. Kramer, Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur, 1940. 12. S.A. Kramer, “Sumerian Literature and the Bible,” AnBib 12 (Studia Biblica et Orientalia 3, 1959), 201. 13. S.N. Kramer, “Lamentation over the Destruction of Nippur: A Preliminary Report,” Eretz Israel 9 (1969): 90. 14. Hillers, Lamentations, Anchor Bible; Norman Gottwald, Studies in the Book of Lamentations, SBT 1/14 (London: SCM, 1962); Bertil Albrechson, Studies in the Text and Theology of the Book of Lamentations (Lund: CWK Gleerup, 1963); William F. Lanaham, “The Speaking Voice in the Book of Lamentations,” JBL 93 (1974): 41–49. Claus Westermann, Die Klagelieder (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1990). H.L.J. Vanstiphout, “Een sumerische Stadtsklacht uit de oud- babylonische Period: Turmenuna of de Nippurklacht,” in Schrijvend Verleden, ed. K.R. Veenhof (Leiden: Ex Oriente Lux, 1983): 330–341. 15. McDaniel, “The Alleged Sumerian Influence upon Lamentations,” 198–209; “Philological Studies in Lamentations I,” 27–53 and 199–220. 16. McDaniel employs the work of Jacobsen, Rudolph, and Weiser especially in his VT 18 article. Essentially, Jacobsen is challenging Kramer provide more sound evidence that there is a parallel between the Sumerian city laments and the biblical material other than cor- responding subject matter and similar circumstances. Even as early as the 1940s, the comparative method could not stand alone on its own two feet. See Thorkild Jacobsen, “Review of Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur by Samuel Noah Kramer,” ASJL 58 (1941): 219– 224; “Review of The Sumerians by Samuel Noah Kramer,” JNES 1 (1946): 147ff. Rudolph and Weiser then reiterate Jacobsen’s concern. W. Rudolph, Das Buch Ruth, Das Hobe Leid, Die Klagelieder, KAT 17 (Gütersloh: Mohn, 1962); A Weiser, Klagelieder, ATD 16 (Göttingen: NOTES 161 Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1962), 297–370; Hans-Joachim Kraus, Klagelieder, BKAT 20 (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1968).
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