The function of (maternal) cannibalism in the book of Lamentations (2:20 & 4:10)

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dc.contributor.authorBosman, Hendrik L.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-03T08:19:16Z
dc.date.available2013-07-03T08:19:16Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.descriptionCITATION: Bosman, H. L. 2012. The function of (maternal) cannibalism in the book of Lamentations (2:20 & 4:10). Scriptura, 110(2):152-165, doi:10.7833/110-0-107.
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://scriptura.journals.ac.za
dc.description.abstractCannibalism is a sensitive subject that many commentaries on the Book of Lamentations pay little attention to. This article develops the possibility that the Book of Lamentations confronts YHWH with the affliction that He has caused the destruction of Jerusalem and that maternal cannibalism is the horrendous extreme of this divinely inflicted suffering. This suggestion is discussed against the background of a central motif in later Greco-Roman literature that the tyrant is the inverted Other. Cannibalism may then be interpreted as a motif in the polemics against tyranny by the author of Lamentations to depict YHWH as author of the misery experienced with the destruction of Jerusalem and thereafter.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://scriptura.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/107
dc.description.versionPublisher's version
dc.format.extent14 pages
dc.identifier.citationBosman, H. L. 2012. The function of (maternal) cannibalism in the book of Lamentations (2:20 & 4:10). Scriptura, 110(2):152-165, doi:10.7833/110-0-107.
dc.identifier.issn2305-445X (online)
dc.identifier.issn0254-1807 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.7833/110-0-107
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/81989
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch University, Faculty of Theologyen_ZA
dc.rights.holderAuthor retains copyright
dc.subjectBible. Lamentations, II, 20 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.en_ZA
dc.subjectBible. Lamentations, IV, 10 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.en_ZA
dc.subjectAnthropophagyen_ZA
dc.subjectCannibalismen_ZA
dc.subjectSufferingen_ZA
dc.titleThe function of (maternal) cannibalism in the book of Lamentations (2:20 & 4:10)en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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