Calling the Keeners: The Image of the Wailing Woman As Symbol of Survival in a Traumatized World
Claassens explores how the image of the keeners, or wailing women, who in Jeremiah 9:17–20 are called by God to raise a lament over the beleaguered people of Judah, serves as a powerful symbol of survival of an injured people seeking to come to terms with the tragedy that had befallen them. Employin...
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Indiana University Press
2010
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Journal of feminist studies in religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 63-77 |
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